Siddharth Anand reacts to Hrithik Roshan’s Fighter being compared to Tom Cruise’s Top Gun – Stop thinking that everything is copied from the West

The Siddharth Anand directorial Fighter starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, and Anil Kapoor will be releasing tomorrow i.e. 25^th January. Ever since the trailer dropped, Fighter has been making headlines for multiple reasons. The high-budget aerial action film has been compared to Tom Cruise starrer Top Gun and other Hollywood action movies. Now, in a recent interview, Siddharth addressed the comparisons and called it ‘inevitable’.

Siddharth reacts to comparisons between Fighter and Top Gun

Speaking with Zoom, Siddharth said, “It is inevitable. As a filmmaker, you have to be prepared that if you make a film on planes they will call it Top Gun because they have no reference point so they believe that we are not so creative, that we will do things that will be a rip-off. We need to start looking at our films with a little bit more respect and not constantly believe that things are being ripped off. People do get inspired, even in the West, by content that is created in the East.”

He added, “I have many instances where lately also I did some sequences and those sequences were similar to a film that came out later, a very very big franchise film in the West.” Adding to that, Siddharth said that he was not saying ‘they copied us and there is no way they would copy us so let’s be real’.

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He went on to add, “There are only that many things that you can do in action, and there will be overlaps. You just have to do it with an X-factor that makes it different. We need to start being, as an audience and as people on social media, start being a little more proud of your own country’s work and stop thinking that everything is inspired or copied from the West.”

Fighter also stars Karan Singh Grover, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Talat Aziz, Rishab Swahney, Ashutosh Rana, and Akshay Oberoi.

Also Read: Fighter trailer: Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone pay an ode to the Indian Air Force in a cinematic spectacle

Mamta Naik

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