Vivek Agnihotri Slams An Activist Who Accused Mani Ratnam For Showing Muslims As Terrorists(Photo Credit –Instagram/wikimedia)

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Ever since his last film The Kashmir Files was announced, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri has been grabbing headlines for his comments and reactions on anything and everything. The film landed in controversy before and after its release, following which it became the talk of the town for all the controversial reasons.

While it’s been a long since the film’s theatrical release, the filmmaker, however, continues to be the talk of the town owing to his tweets.

Recently, Vivek Agnihotri reacted to an activist’s tweet in which she accused veteran director Mani Ratnam of showing Muslims as terrorists. In a series of tweet, she wrote, “The first movie in South India which portrayed Muslims as terrorists was “Roja” . Maniratnam started the trend. Roja was an agenda movie produced by Balachander a soft Sanghi. ARR worked in that and every similar movie made by Mani . Roja,Bomba,Dil se etc,” while the following Tweet read, “Has anyone who’s questioning Ilayaraja on his work in ThevarMagan posed the same disdain and questions to ARR? On why did he work in Islamophobic movies? Which created a big impact to Muslim lives in TN in the 90s? We left him because he is feudal caste muslim? How Convinient No?”

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