'Bawaal' runs into trouble on Twitter, netizens decry insensitive references to Auschwitz …

Jahnvi Kapoor- Varun Dhawan’s ‘Bawaal’ has gotten involved in another controversy. The film caused quite an uproar on Twitter when one user pointed out that at one point in the film, Kapoor’s Nisha compares a troubled conjugal relationship to the horrors experienced by Jews and other persecuted minorities at the concentration camps in Auschwitz, during Nazi Germany. “An unhealthy relationship is the same as The Holocaust and anyone who is greedy is like Hitler. ‘Har relationship apne apne Auschwitz se guzar ta hai. Tab jakar hume use ristey ki ahmiyat samaj mein aati hai. Ye bawaal ki story hai. I am deeply disturbed,” wrote one Twitter user.— IndieKnopfler (@IndieKnopfler) — jagishaarora (@jagishaarora) Another wrote, “Comparing tribulations and problems in a marriage to Auschwitz mass genocide is the lowest a Bollywood movie has ever stooped to. If a Hollywood movie, it would have been cancelled forever. Wtf were the Amazon people smoking when they green-lit this?”“What I really can’t wrap my head around is that Amazon is hosting #Bawaal. I get that regular Bollywood producers don’t think a film that trivializes the horrors of Nazi Germany is problematic but an international platform like Amazon should know better, “ ranted another user.Directed
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