Hrithik Roshan says he didn’t object to Fighter dialogues as they were Siddharth Anand’s ‘conviction’: ‘I bear the weight of…’

Fighter actor Hrithik Roshan believes that his audience doesn't need jingoistic dialogues to understand the emotion of a scene.

Siddharth Anand's Fighter, starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, is currently in theatres. (Photo: Hrithik Roshan/Instagram)

Actor Hrithik Roshan’s latest release Fighter, an aerial actioner, has received mixed reactions from the audience. While some have found it to be an entertaining drama, some have issues with its highly jingoistic, anti-Pakistan dialogues. The actor also believes that his audience doesn’t need dialogues like these to understand the emotion of the scene.

In a new interview, Hrithik reacted to criticism around the dialogues of Fighter, disassociating himself from the dialogues and calling them director Siddharth Anand’s “conviction”. He told Film Companion, “I would like to believe that my fans and my audience who come to watch my films are a bit more evolved and they would not like lines like these.” But since the actor doesn’t believe in “crossing the line” and interfering with the director’s vision, he didn’t object to Siddharth putting dialogues like “India Occupied Pakistan” in the film.

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Hrithik added, “I admire that Sid (Siddharth Anand) is a very very headstrong filmmaker. It’s his conviction and when you see someone as convinced, it kind of breaks your heart to say no, which I don’t do. But I also bear the weight of that because it’s finally my face.”

Fighter, also starring Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor, references the Pulwama terror attack and Balakot surgical strike. The film might be critiqued for its dialogues, Hrithik is delighted to know that the audience is enjoying it. He concluded, “I am very very happy that it has landed as entertainment. I am really relieved about that.”

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Earlier, Siddharth Anand had also addressed people’s disappointment with the dialogues of his film. During a press conference, he said, “The primary thing I want to reiterate and what has been said in the film is that our war is not against a country, it is against terrorism. That is what Fighter stands for. It is a fight against terrorism, not against a particular country. That is emphasised throughout the film. He added he would call the film “more nationalistic than jingoistic.”

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