Sanjay Gupta Slams Posters Of Vicky Kaushal's Love & War, Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar And Ranbir Kapoor's Animal Over Anti-Smoking Ads
Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta questioned the use of smoking in promotional posters featuring leading Bollywood actors like Vicky Kaushal, Ranveer Singh and Ranbir Kapoor, pointing to what he sees as a contradiction between such imagery and the anti-smoking warnings shown in cinemas. On Sunday (September 27), Gupta shared a collage on X featuring Ranbir Kapoor in Animal, Ranveer Singh in Dhurandhar and…
Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Gupta criticized the promotional posters of three recent films - Ranbir Kapoor in Animal, Ranveer Singh in Dhurandhar, and Vicky Kaushal in Love & War - for featuring actors smoking. Gupta questioned the purpose of mandatory anti-smoking warnings shown before and during films when the posters themselves display actors smoking.
His tweet about the posters went viral, sparking debate on social media. Some users accused Gupta of hypocrisy, pointing to a song from his 2002 film Kaante. Gupta responded by noting that smoking was allowed in film posters at the time due to different regulations. The controversy comes amid changes in India's film certification rules, which now require anti-drug warnings for films depicting narcotics while maintaining restrictions on violence and sensitive content.
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