Shamshera director Karan Malhotra breaks silence on film’s failure: Couldn’t handle the hate and rage

Ranbir Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt and Vaani Kapoor starrer film, Shamshera released in theatres on July 22. Given the hype, promotions and the buzz, the movie failed to get good reviews from the critics and audience. It also didn’t perform well at the box-office. Shamshera managed to mint only Rs 31.75 crore during its first weekend. The film has been facing a lot of criticism and director Karan Malhotra was not there to address it all this while. Now, he has penned a lengthy note saying that he ‘could not handle the hate and rage’ that his film had to face. He also apologized for ‘abandoning’ the film.

Karan captioned his post, “Shamshera is mine” and wrote, “My Dearest Shamshera, you are majestic the way you are. It is important for me to express myself on this platform because here is where is all the love, the hate, the celebration and the humiliation exists for you. I want to unimaginably apologise to you for abandoning you for these past few days as I could not handle the hate and rage. My withdrawal was my weakness and there are no excuses for it.”

He further wrote, “But now I am here, standing beside you hand in hand feeling proud and honoured that you are mine, Will face everything together, the good, the bad and the ugly. And a huge shout out to the Shamshera family, the cast and crew of Shamshera. The love, the blessings and the concern that has been showered upon us are the most precious and nobody can take that away from us. #ShamsheraIsMine #Shamshera.”

Have a look at Karan Malhotra’s post here.

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