Mr Bachchan is one film whose fate is sealed right with the Paid Premieres. The movie has triggered a social media storm with a barrage of trolls and brickbats. The long weekend is supposed to be beneficial for the film but it is already trending in the last place among the new releases this week.
One name that is unanimously heard as the reason for this debacle is director Harish Shankar.
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Harish Shankar’s Problematic Behavior is the main reason for the plight of this film. With Ravi Teja not coming to the promotions, Harish Shankar became the face of the film in promotions but he misused every bit of it.
In every event and every interview, Harish Shankar tried to take centerstage even overshadowing the film.
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Somehow Twitter has gone into the head of the director and he was completely focused on improving his own image.
He tries to poke media houses and media personnel for no reason talking about issues and topics that are completely unrelated to the film.
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In a couple of interviews and events, he is seen asking the media – “Ask me anything controversial. I will not leave this space without answering”.
Who on earth would talk about ‘any controversy’ just before the movie’s release? Why would you want to talk?
In fact, he should be trying to bring questions more about the movie than anything else if he is concerned about the film.
While this is his stint on X and Hyderabad, he would also do the same going to a Pre-release event in Kurnool.
Why do the TV audience need to know what happens on X or between him and the media? Those audiences are supposed to be the ‘non-digital audience’.
The blame is on the production house and the hero who remained mute spectators to this Tamasha. Never did they try to rein the director.
And then, the film is completely riddled with errors of humungous magnitude.
Harish Shankar may have taken the name of ‘Good Remake Director’ too seriously. You have a decent subject like Raid and what is the need for making it a Khichidi in the name of commercialization?
You can commercialize a commercial subject but what is the need to spoil a good subject?
And in the name of commercialization, there is a complete mess of objectifying the heroine, outdated jokes using Satya and Chammak Chandra, a horrendous romantic track of Annapurnamma, etc.
If not for this commercialization madness, you would have at least left with a good name for making a good film irrespective of the commercial success.
And why do you need cinema to settle scores with another director (Guruji track)?
You have a product that is your worst output to date and you make no attempt to better it. You trim thirteen minutes after the release but wasted time completely with self-publicity stunts without realizing the need for corrections.
Harish Shankar would have been on a rampage if the movie still does well in theaters irrespective of content (like Dhamaka). And the rampage again would be of no use for the film but only for self-publicity.
There are directors who have disasters and even more than that. For instance, Puri also scored a flop on the same day. But the criticism and hate of Puri is not even 5% of what is on Harish right now. That is just because of the self-publicity mess he created before the movie’s release.
Harish should at least now realize. He should realize the actual task he has as a director is much bigger than the RTs of X and Views on YouTube. He should come out of this self-centric trap he himself created and got entangled in and focus on the script for his next film.
