Didn’t Like ‘Firangi’? Don’t Tell Kapil Sharma

Everyone in India is a film critic, says the comedian-turned-actor.

Kapil Sharma is not happy with people criticising Firangi. 

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Kapil Sharma’s Firangi is not doing too well at the box office and word of mouth is not helping either. And it seems to be on Kapil’s mind. The comedian-turned-actor, in an interview with News18 India, several times broached the theme of how everyone in India is a critic and that people criticise a film without knowing anything about the subject.

Edited excerpts from the interview:

“People who watch only Hollywood films take it upon themselves to share their opinion about Bollywood movies. One person would say, it’s unacceptable that a girl and a boy don’t even hold hands. I have made the film for the masses, let them decide. These things hurt a lot. My BP increased and I couldn’t make it to an event that day... sometimes I say nothing, sometimes I tweet straight to the Prime Minister... <i>phir ulta meri lag jaati hai</i>.”

Kapil Sharma, comedian-turned-actor

“Indians are always looking for faults. Especially women have a problem with my accent. But foreigners don’t pay so much attention to these things. Indians are always looking for faults. Especially women have a problem with my accent. But foreigners don’t pay so much attention to these things... if you are weak in one thing, it doesn’t mean you are weak in life. I feel more comfortable with foreigners.. I have no trouble connecting with people like Chris Gayle and Bret Lee.”

“I will accept criticism from someone like Ramesh Sippy who made <i>Sholay </i>or other good critics. But now everyone is a critic. May be someone likes seeing <i>gandi </i>films and he’s wondering what sort of a film this is where the hero doesn’t even hold hands with the heroine. He is saying, there is nothing in the movie. Let people go and watch for themselves! A film requires a lot of work. But these things don’t intimidate me. I will keep doing what I want to do.”