Ali Fazal Strongly Reacts to ‘Boycott Mirzapur 2’ Tweets, ‘Are We at the mercy of a Trend?’

After the trailer of season 2 of popular web series Mirzapur released earlier this week, a section of people on Twitter started calling for its boycott. Soon it became one of the trending topics on micro-blogging site, Twitter, with hundreds and thousands tweeting ‘Boycott Mirzapur 2’.

Now, days after, Ali Fazal who plays Guddu Bhaiyya, one of the prime characters in the web show strongly condemned the trends. Talking to Times Now Digital he said, “We have to decide what is the bar we are setting. Are we at the mercy of a trend? No! I don’t look at art in that way. Are we at the mercy of one app that decides who will watch our show and who will not? No, I think this has really gone down. I mean if you are really talking about trends, I never saw any trends related to farmers – there have been protests everywhere across our country. But I wouldn’t say that it’s not an important story, it’s the most important story. Pandemic suddenly has become the last story on everybody’s mind. It’s not trending anymore but it’s still supposed to be the biggest problem that we are facing. I hope the people rise above that.”