Showing posts with label Rohit Sharma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rohit Sharma. Show all posts
Salman Khan fans on intentional negativity around Sikandar: "Something like this has the power to wipe off a film"
8:44 AM
From circulation of old videos on X to posts about Sikandar’s shows being cancelled, Salman Khan’s fan clubs say negative advertising being used to bring the film down
Mohar Basu (MID-DAY; April 3, 2025)
On Monday night, many accounts on X posted a video in which movie-goers, after apparently having watched Sikandar, are expressing their disappointment with the Salman Khan-starrer. Soon, it came to light that it was, in fact, an old video of viewers reacting to Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan (2023), but was being circulated on X as a reaction to Khan’s latest release. What’s worse, it was being run as an ad on the platform.
While Sikandar has opened to poor reviews and an underwhelming response, members of Khan’s fan clubs suspect that negative advertising is being used to influence the audience’s perception of the Eid release.
Ravi Desai, who runs the Salman Khan Fan Club, says that negativity around the A R Murugadoss-directed venture is being artificially inflated. “It remains to be seen whether this campaign is driven by someone in the industry, or just an aggressive push by rival fan groups. But something like this has the power to wipe off a film. It happened during Tubelight [2017]. You can’t combat these posts because there is most likely an agency hired and it is multiplying bots every hour. [Many posts] claimed that shows are cancelled, but if you check at Gaiety Galaxy, the shows are sold out,” he argues.
Rohit Sharma, who runs the fan club, Salman Army, points out how a boycott campaign had been run against Laal Singh Chaddha (2021). “We saw how online hate ensured that people stayed away from Aamir Khan’s film. Something similar is happening here. Why is an old video being sold as a reaction to Sikandar,” he questions, adding that those at the helm of it are setting a “dangerous precedent”.
“If an agency can be hired to run paid ads and amplify negative tweets about a film, it can be used against any actor or filmmaker in the future. It’s manipulation,” he says.
3 Kangana Ranaut's tweets taken down for ‘violating’ rules
8:19 AM
Anam Ajmal (THE TIMES OF INDIA; February 5, 2021)
New Delhi: Twitter took down three tweets by actor Kangana Ranaut for “violating” its rules on Thursday.
“We have taken action on Tweets that were in violation of the Twitter Rules in line with our range of enforcement options,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement, although the microblogging platform did not clarify what rules the tweets violated.
One of the posts, which was taken down was a reply to cricketer Rohit Sharma, who, along with Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina who had posted tweets with coordinated hashtags -- #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda. The posts were indirectly reacting to international pop star Rihanna, who had come out in support of farmers protesting against the new laws.
Ranaut, a vocal supporter of the laws, referred to far mers as “terrorists causing ruckus” in the tweet, while also referring to Sharma in a derogatory manner.
Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma, Rohit Sharma attend engagement party of Zaheer Khan & Sagarika Ghatge
8:07 AM
Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma head-lined the guest-list at the engagement party of the cricketer and actress Sagarika Ghatge in Mumbai
Natasha Coutinho (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 25, 2017)
After whisking ladylove Sagarika Ghatge off to Goa (Mirror, April 25) to pop the question, cricketer Zaheer Khan followed up the proposal with a star-studded yet informal engagement party in Mumbai.
On Tuesday, the couple had cricketers as well as filmi friends in attendance at a SoBo five-star for the celebrations that kicked off at 9 pm and didn’t wind up before 4 am, when the guests started filing out of the venue.
Anushka Sharma and skipper beau Virat Kohli, coordinated in monochrome, walked in hand-in-hand, while fellow teammate Rohit Sharma arrived with wife Ritika Sajdeh. Raveena Tandon, accompanied by film distributor husband Anil Thadani, made a brief appearance of about 15 minutes, and Yuvraj Singh, who had arrived solo, hung out with actor-friend Angad Bedi. Also flying solo for the night was Bobby Deol, while Arshad Warsi was with wife Maria Goretti, who stood out in her white shirt-sweeping skirt combo by her favourite designer, Mayyur Girotra. Also representing the Men In Blue was Sachin Tendulkar, with wife Anjali and actress-TV presenter Mandira Bedi, grabbing the spotlight in a ruched bodycon number. Kai Po Che! director Abhishek Kapoor turned up with model-actress wife Pragya Yadav.
“I’d proposed to Sagarika while IPL was on and we were just waiting for it to get over so we could celebrate with friends. It was an impromptu plan but I knew I had to do this at some stage, before I focus on other things at hand. It was a chilled out evening as the basic idea was to get together with friends and catch up, while also officially announce the engagement. There’s still time for the wedding and we haven’t decided on the date yet,” Zaheer told Mirror.
Meanwhile, bride-to-be Sagarika had clearly internalised the memo, opting for a “comfortable” gown (a chartruse Monisha Jaising) as there would be “no dancing; only sitting around with friends.” “Zaheer and his friends had been busy with the IPL so we hadn’t found time to celebrate. Now that he’s free, we will sit and fix a date for the wedding,” she said.
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