Lal Singh Chaddha

Ahead of its release, Laal Singh Chaddha is facing considerable backlash online, with much of the criticism being levelled at Aamir Khan himself.

Here is a brief snapshot of the social media backlash the movie and Aamir Khan himself are facing online- There is no provision under CRPC to demolish the house of an accused person as is being done in UP Finally, there are those online who are simply content to see the apparent success of the campaign to boycott the movie and 'cancel' Aamir Khan. The official Hindi remake of Hollywood film Forrest Grump, the movie will release in theatres on August 11. The movie itself aside, a number of comments online have focussed on Aamir Khan himself, promoting a ban on Khan and his movies based on his beliefs, perceived or otherwise, and his past actions. Aamir Khan's new movie Laal Singh Chaddha is already facing a wave of backlash ahead of its release with reports of Haridwar seers appealing to people to not watch the movie on account of Khan's perceived 'Hindu phobia'. Online, the movie is already facing a social media movement that is hellbent on boycotting the movie and even Bollywood itself.

'Laal Singh Chaddha' marks the third collaboration between Aamir and Kareena after Rajkumar Hirani-directorial '3 Idiots' and Reema Kagti's 'Talaash: The ...

The *advance bookings* of— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) #LaalSinghChaddhaand #RakshaBandhanare way BELOW EXPECTATIONS... Both dependent on [i] spot bookings / walk-in audience and [ii] word of mouth to put up strong totals on Day 1 [Thu]. pic.twitter.com/EA9RPbZ9eh August 10, 2022 So i request to each and everyone to boycott “Lal Singh chadha” #BoycottbollywoodCompletely #LalSinghChaddha #AamirKhan pic.twitter.com/8FapNfQFXz August 10, 2022 Also, I feel sad that some of the people who are saying this, in their heart, they believe that I am someone who doesn’t like India. In their hearts, they believe, but it is untrue. It is rather unfortunate that some people feel that way. pic.twitter.com/bGkDEU6A2H August 10, 2022 pic.twitter.com/quQVGkUQlV August 10, 2022 Let's get the facts right... Talking of low advance bookings, film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted, “STOP painting a rosy picture… Some users also shared screenshots to illustrate that the advance booking for the film is dismally low. #BoycottLalSinghChaddha pic.twitter.com/JhVfw8ZXMV August 1, 2022 #amirkhan pic.twitter.com/1RlynTFoB0 August 11, 2022 You never know what you’re gonna get.”

Director Advait Chandan is too literal in his adaptation of the 90s classic but finds a warmth and political honesty the original lacks.

Few could blame Khan for playing safe in the face of renewed personal attacks and weaponised hashtags. Making the amputee pal a reformed fundamentalist (Manav Vij) is interesting, although the hands-across-the-temple-aisle editorial feels watered down compared with Khan’s puckish religious satire PK. Laal Singh Chaddha is far from the worst Hindification of a Hollywood property: it consolidates the basic competency that Chandan demonstrated in Secret Superstar without achieving the genuine magic that the earlier film conjured from well-worn material. Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan’s “Hanks-ish likability” is tested to the limit by his new project with his Secret Superstar director Advait Chandan: a Hindi remake of Forrest Gump, late 20th-century Hollywood’s pre-eminent Rorschach blot.

The primary differentiation between Forrest Gump and Laal Singh Chaddha is that Forrest was driven mostly by his instinct to follow commands, Laal's actions ...

Ultimately, of course, Laal Singh Chaddha must stand on its own sans comparisons since it is being viewed in 2022 by a whole generation of viewers to whom Forrest Gump is not a cultural reference that evokes nostalgia. Where Laal Singh Chaddha is a vast improvement on Forrest Gump is in the characterisation of Laal’s life-long love interest, Rupa ( Kareena Kapoor Khan). Forrest’s Jenny (Robin Wright) was a flat cardboard cut-out who popped in and out of his life while bad things just happened to her. Laal Singh Chaddha gives Rupa more heft and agency, allowing her the space to take matters into her own hands in a decisive way, thus making headlines in this film in the way that Forrest repeatedly did but Jenny did not. By the time the curtain falls on Laal Singh Chaddha, India is well past the 2014 elections – we know that because we fleetingly see an image from Narendra Modi’s campaign that year and because of a tragedy that strikes the protagonist in 2018. But simplistic it was, seeming to suggest that as long as you do what is good and right, you will find good things (in this case, a remarkable career and prosperity) coming to you – a philosophy that might perhaps seem logical from the place of social privilege that Forrest, a white American male, occupied, but shut its eyes to the reality of most of humanity, especially communities deprived of prosperity specifically because of white American male dominance. It was brilliant in its format – the saga of a slow-witted man chatting with strangers on a bus-stop bench and recounting his life story parallel to world-altering events that he had witnessed up close or even participated in without realising their significance, unaware that he had sometimes personally influenced great artists or the course of national affairs through several tumultuous decades of American history.