Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and journalist Mohammed Zubair have been engaged in a disagreement on Twitter. After Zubair ‘fact-checked’ Vivek’s tweet about successful the ‘Dadasaheb Phalke award’, Vivek has been attacking him on Twitter, calling him everything from puncture repairer to ‘jihadi’. (Also learn: Vivek Agnihotri on getting safety with tax payers cash: ‘It is used to fight terrorism, if that stops…’)
On Friday, Swara Bhaskar bought into the combo as properly. She took to Twitter to tweet about Vivek’s ‘bigoted’ behaviour. “Vivek Agnihotri name-calling, swearing at, accusing Muslim citizens on public platforms simply because they are Muslim is a glaring example of how vile, poisoned, bigoted and majoritarian our public discourse has become in ‘New India’. Sickening,” she wrote in her tweet.
Earlier, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files received an award on the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Awards. As the filmmaker celebrated the win, Zubair wrote in a tweet that Vivek’s movie had not received the true and prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award however one other that sounds prefer it. Vivek bought aggravated and wrote again, “Fact checking is the biggest extortion mafia today. Controlled by crazy, lunatic terror organisation.” When Zubair shared screenshots of the Dadasaheb Phalke award confusion, Vivek wrote, “I don’t hate fact-checkers, I hate when puncture repairers pretend to be fact checkers. Because you are nothing but just a jehadi pimp of India’s enemies & I know very well who is behind you. Every jihadi will have his day and your time is just around the corner.”
Zubair wrote again, “Words like ‘Jihadi’ or ‘Puncture wala’ against Muslims were earlier used by faceless Right Wing trolls, It’s now openly being used by Verified trolls like.” Vivek wrote, “Instead of metaphors, I should call you exactly what you are: Genocide denier, terror supporter, perpetrator of women harassment (Nupur Sharma) instigator of #SarTanSeJuda (Kanhaiya Lal) & anti-truth pimp of Hindu’s enemies. Prepare yourself for qayamat when it comes. The end.”
Swara and Vivek additionally feuded in the course of the launch of Padmaavat (2018), when Swara wrote an open letter to Sanjay Leela Bhansali criticising his movie and Vivek referred to as her a ‘pretend feminist’.
When not sharing his political beliefs on Twitter, Vivek works on his subsequent launch, The Vaccine War.
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