Brahmastra: Ayan Mukerji clarifies Ranbir Kapoor’s scene of wearing shoes in the Temple
The trailer for Ayan Mukerji’s much-anticipated fantasy adventure film Brahmastra was released just four days ago. While many praised it for its visual effects, sets, and characters, others mocked it for a variety of reasons. One of them was for Ranbir Kapoor’s Shiva visiting a temple while wearing shoes, which many people mistook for a temple.
For those who don’t know, netizens slammed the Alia Bhatt, Amitabh Bachchan film’s directors for showing RK entering a temple with shoes on and rang the bell within 24 hours of the trailer’s release. Ayan has now clarified the situation.
Taking to his Instagram a while ago, Ayan Mukerji announced that the 4K trailer of Brahmastra is out. Sharing the trailer link of the Ranbir Kapoor-led flick in his bio, the director captioned his post, “OUR TRAILER IN 4K ! Please Click on the Link in Bio – for a better, sharper, clearer watch.” Along with it, he added, “We got a lot of comments on why we didn’t load our Trailer in 4K. A better resolution is of course, the better way to see these images we worked so hard to create! So although delayed – Here it is ! ? And… Thank You for the feedback that led to us doing this ??”
Addressing the backlash Brahmastra received for Ranbir Kapoor wearing shoes, while ringing the bell and entering the ‘temple,’ the director noted, “We had some people in our community, upset because of one shot in our Trailer – Ranbir’s character wearing shoes as he rings a Bell. As the Creator of this film (and a devotee), I wanted to humbly address what happened here. In our movie, Ranbir is not entering a temple, but a Durga Puja Pandal.”
Ayan Mukerji continued, “It is personally important for me to reach out to anyone who may have been upset with this image… because above all, Brahmāstra is created as a movie experience which pays respect to, and celebrates – Indian culture, traditions and history. That is at the heart of why I made this movie, so it is very important to me that this feeling, reaches every Indian who is watching Brahmāstra!”
Directed by Ayan Mukerji, Brahmastra stars Ranbir Kapoor as Shiva and Alia Bhatt as Isha. Besides them, the first film of the planned trilogy also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Mouni Roy, Nagarjuna Akkineni and more.
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