In one scene, Janhvi’s character says, “Every relationship goes through its Auschwitz.” There is another dialogue which says, ‘We are all a little like Hitler, aren’t we?’ The audience found the comparison with Auschwitz and Hitler quite insensitive.
Addressing the controversy, Varun reacted strongly to it saying that he does not understand where this sensitivity and trigger goes when people watch an English film. He then indirectly cited the example of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s recently released film Oppenheimer in which J. Robert Oppenheimer He quotes a verse from the Bhagavad Gita while having sex with his girlfriend – “Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“Some people got excited or sensitive about it. But I don’t understand where does that sensitivity or trigger go when they watch an English film, I am saying for example. They’re allowed to do everything there, they’re allowed to leap and they’re allowed to show things a certain way, however you’ve got to get it right. I know people get very excited after watching a small scene of a wonderful movie that released recently. It is a scene that is important to our culture and our country. But that’s fine for you. Don’t you think they should be more sensitive towards you? Then where does your criticism go? Varun told Pinkvilla.
In the same interview, Nitesh Tiwari also said in response to Varun, “If you decide to watch it with a magnifying lens then no work is done without problems, which is not the way to watch a film.”