Alia Bhatt courts controversy, branded a hypocrite

Alia Bhatt who is giving beauty blast at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, landed in huge controversy with her comments and she is now branded as a hypocrite.

Alia Bhatt said “When I look at the landscape, I think we're in a very fascinating time today… If you take a look at the box office, you'll see the films that have done phenomenally well: Barbie, Wuthering Heights, and The Devil Wears Prada. These are a few; I am sure there are way more, and their main audience, perhaps, was women. Women were showing up, watching these films, which have now become massive hits,”

She continued “But in India, when we talk about box office and numbers, there is a conversation that comes up pretty often, which is 75% of the movie-going audience is male, so we need to cater to the masses. This conversation comes up quite a bit. I wonder if we are catering just to the men, then what happens to the women?”

She added “I am not saying alienate the men, but why do we have to alienate anyone? Why do we have to cater to one gender? Why can't we make movies that are gender-agnostic, where the storytelling takes centre stage?”

Following this, netizens branded Alia as a hypocrite. One user commented, “She’s trying to set the stage for Alpha and then in case Alpha fails they will blame it on the audience for not supporting women centric films. lol lol what a preemptive strategy for a flop.”