Twitter Users Uninstalling Hotstar To Boycott Sadak 2 From The Bhatt Family

Hanima Anand |Aug 12, 2020

Amid the tense nepotism protest, many Twitter users are calling Indian netizens to uninstall the OTT platform which released Sadak 2. The film involves many members in the Bhatt family.

After the untimely demise of Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian Internet users have shown their strong disapproval of Bollywood nepotism that is believed to drive outsiders as Sushant to the extreme steps. Alia Bhatt also lost a huge number of followers due to this, along with some other star kids as Sonam Kapoor or Sara Ali Khan.

Mahesh Bhatt Family — The Bhatt family is among the most attacked people amid Bollywood nepotism protest.

Even when Sushant’s father filed an FIR against Rhea Chakraborty, the Bhatt family members couldn’t escape the anger from fans. Particularly, when people found that Rhea Chakraborty and Mahesh Bhatt had called each other 16 times one week before Sushant’s death plus the throwback photos of Rhea and Bhatt, fans immediately called for the boycott of Sadak 2.

Mahesh Bhatt and Rhea Chakraborty — The relationship between Rhea Chakraborty and Mahesh Bhatt is questioned after SSR's death.

Since Monday, the hashtags #UninstallHotstar, #BoycottSadak2 and #BoycottAliaBhatt have been trending on Twitter and some other social networking sites. To be specific, Twitter users upload a photo of them removing the Disney+Hotstar app out of their phone because this is the OTT platform to release Sadak 2.

Sadak 2 Tweet — Posts with the hashtag #UninstallHotstar are retweeted over a thousand times since Monday.

Before this, Sadak 2 was involved in a legal trouble of hurting Hindu community for its poster.

Sadak 2 is the comeback project of Mahesh Bhatt after over 2 decades, produced by his brother Mukesh Bhatt and starring two Bhatt’s daughters Alia and Pooja. Sadak 2 also features the appearance of legend actor Sanjay Dutt who was just diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer yesterday.

Sadak 2 is projected to be released on August 28. Given this situation, the film may not have high viewership as expected before.

Meanwhile, such hashtag as #JusticeforSSR or #Warriors4SSR are also trending on both Twitter and Instagram amid the ED interrogations of prime accused Rhea Chakraborty.

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