After Laal Singh Chaddha, #BoycottDobaara trends on Twitter - Know reason, box office collection and more about Taapsee Pannus movie
Boycott Dobaara: Recently, Taapsee Pannu said during a press conference that the trend on social media calling for boycott of Hindi films is nothing but a joke, one that undermines the viewers. According to the actor, she has passed the stage of being bothered by social media trends.
Boycott Dobaara: After Laal Singh Chaddha, Taapsee Pannu's movie is boycotted by netizens on the social media platform. The movie "Dobaaraa" is trending on Twitter with the #BoycottDobaara.
The hashtag got 31.2K tweets till now. Apart from that "Taapsee" is also trending with approximately 60.8K tweets.
Actually, the trend of hashtags calling for a film's boycott started with Aamir Khan's "Laal Singh Chaddha". Later, similar hashtags against Akshay Kumar's "Raksha Bandhan" popped up on online platforms. Some netizens also called for the shunning of "Dobaaraa", directed by Kashyap and featuring Pannu in the lead.
Asked to comment on the social media trends, Aamir had said he was saddened by the boycott calls and urged the audience to watch his film.
Talking about the collection of "Dobaaraa" the movie critic Taran Adarsh said Pannu's movie opens to better numbers than expected. He also shared the box-office collection of Day 1 and tweeted on Saturday, "#DoBaaraa opens to better numbers than expected... In fact, much better than #Taapsee's previous film #ShabaashMithu... Picked up at select premium multiplexes towards evening/night shows... Fri ₹ 72 lacs [370 screens]. #India biz."
Recently, Taapsee Pannu said during a press conference that the trend on social media calling for boycott of Hindi films is nothing but a "joke", one that undermines the viewers. According to the actor, she has passed the stage of "being bothered" by social media trends.
"If something like this (boycott calls and trolling) happens on a daily basis, one ceases to be bothered anymore. It becomes useless. There is a dialogue to this effect in one of my films," Pannu said during a press conference here on Thursday.
"I cannot talk about others in the industry, but for me and Anurag, it has become a joke," she added.
"Dobaaraa" is jointly produced by Ektaa Kapoor's Cult Movies, a new division under Balaji Telefilms, and Sunir Kheterpal and Gaurav Bose's banner Athena. The movie is a mystery drama revolves around how a woman named Antara (Pannu) gets an opportunity to save the life of a 12-year-old boy who witnessed a death during a thunderstorm which happened 25 years ago, by getting connected through the television set during a similar storm in the present.
(With the inputs of IANS)
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