‘I was feeling bad’ says Ayan Mukerji as he sheds light on Ranbir Kapoor-Alia Bhatt Ujjain incident

Ahead of the Brahmastra release, actors Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt along with filmmaker Ayan Mukerji went to Ujjain to visit the Mahakaleshwar temple. However, Ranbir and Alia were stopped by the protestors who didn’t allow them inside the temple due to Ranbir’s old comment on beef. Now, the team has headed to Delhi to promote Brahmastra where Ayan said that he felt terrible that Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt were not allowed to visit the temple.

Shedding light on the Ujjain incident, Ayan said, “I have to request you that I want to answer this question. I want to take this question because today we are here to talk about Brahmastra. And, as the filmmaker and the creator of this film, I feel it’s important we keep our conversation around Brahmastra. In Madhya Pradesh, I was feeling really bad that Ranbir and Alia did not come with me for darshan at Mahakaleshwar temple. I had gone to Mahakal before the release of Brahmastra’s motion poster. That time also I was coming to Delhi and I had told myself that before the release of the film, I’d definitely go again and both of them (Ranbir-Alia) very keen to come with me.”

The filmmaker continued, “Till the end, they were very keen that they will come but when we reached there and we heard about this, I felt that let me go alone, eventually I had gone to seek blessings and energy for the film and that blessing is for everybody. I did not want to take Alia there in the current condition so I went alone. I felt very bad and when I went I did feel that they could have also come and gotten their darshans.”

 

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“In Brahmastra, we have this line, ‘The light is coming’; by light, we mean everything that is positive and spiritual in this life. And with this whole marketing effort and this film, I feel we must only spread warmth and positivity because that is what we all want and that is what the whole world needs. I truly think that we worked so hard on this film and there is so much celebration of Indian culture in this film that I feel every single person is going to feel that positivity. I want to keep this really positive and that positive energy of the film will touch everyone,” Ayan Mukerji concluded.

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