The drama began on May 7th, a night after the Jadavpur incident caught fire. A group of people in Lutyens Delhi, led by AAP-supporter scribe Abhinandan Sekhri of newslaundry.com and other journalist accomplices started a campaign to ridicule the film. Sekhri tweeted: ‘@vivekagnihotri and while I think no matter how silly or mediocre your film, it must be screened, that doesn’t take away from your buffoonery.’ This was nasty and unnecessary. He was commenting on the film without even seeing it. But he was not alone. The cocktail circuit of Lutyens intellectuals started attacking me on social
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