One of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year is Fighter. Hrithik Roshan plays an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer in the film. Many users had compared the Siddharth Anand film to the Tom Cruise movie series Top Gun when the first glimpse of the movie was released a few weeks ago. Siddharth Anand has now addressed the responses, saying in an interview with Zoom that it “was inevitable” and urging viewers to view Indian films with greater “respect.”
Siddharth Anand talks about the comparison with Top Gun
The director was talking with ZOOM and he said about the comparison, “I think 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 are 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 where 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. I am not saying they copied us. There’s no way they would copy us, so let’s be real. There are only that many things you can do in action and there will be overlaps. You just got to do it with an X factor that makes it different. The Top Gun comparisons will be beaten to dust in the first 5 minutes,”
About the film
Fighter is purportedly an ode to the valour and dedication of the Indian armed forces. The movie centres on Air Dragons, a brand-new elite squad that the Air Headquarters activates in reaction to militant activity occurring in the Srinagar Valley.
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