Ahead of Akshay Kumar’s Sky Force, Fighter director Siddharth Anand shares sarcastic post: ‘Insecurity hits new lows’

See Siddharth Anand’s station here:

Hahahaha!! Insecurity hits caller lows! I consciousness truthful important today! 😎
Have religion successful your ain self! Come connected yo!!
An aged saying – By blowing disconnected different candle, won’t marque yours pain brighter! But alas…

— Siddharth Anand (@justSidAnand) January 23, 2025

Reacting to the post, an X idiosyncratic wrote, “Both volition beryllium replica to each other. Skyforce volition beryllium Fighter of 2025. BO collections volition corroborate this,” portion different posted, “Why are you reacting to it? Feeling insecure? It’s a antithetic movie, antithetic releases successful a antithetic year. Let it beryllium immoderate it does. You made a movie with 400 Cr. This 1 is made for escaped (they accidental the budget is 80 Cr whereas Akshay Kumar unsocial charges 100 Cr).”

Hrithik-Deepika’s movie Fighter released connected January 25, 2024. It besides starred Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover, Akshay Oberoi and Sanjeeda Shaikh arsenic IAF officers. While it emerged arsenic 1 of the highest-grossing films of 2024, it received mixed reviews. Siddharth had claimed that the movie under-performed due to the fact that the bulk of the state hadn’t experienced aerial travel. “Fighter is simply a immense leap for a filmmaker. It’s a abstraction that is unexplored and perfectly new. It has nary notation constituent for the audience. They are like, ‘What are these planes doing?’ There is simply a immense percent of our country, I would say, 90 per cent, who person not flown successful planes, who person not been to an airport, truthful however would they cognize what’s happening successful the movie? This is my dissection. They felt this is simply a small alien. They didn’t recognize what benignant of exhilaration they are expected to consciousness successful the aerial action, truthful determination is simply a definite archetypal disconnect,” helium told Galatta Plus.

Sky Force is said to beryllium ‘an untold communicative of honor, courageousness and patriotism that deserves to beryllium shared’ and is based connected a pivotal infinitesimal successful Indian history. Sky Force features Akshay Kumar and Veer Pahariya arsenic IAF officers. The movie is astir country’s retaliatory onslaught connected Pakistan’s Sargodha airbase during the Indo-Pakistan warfare of 1965 which is remembered arsenic India’s archetypal and deadliest airstrike.

The movie besides stars Sara Ali Khan, Nimrat Kaur, and Sharad Kelkar successful important roles.

A time earlier, Akshay Kumar shared successful a post, “I’ve been a portion of implicit 150 films, but there’s thing uniquely almighty astir the words “based connected a existent story.” And to apical it off, stepping into the azygous of an Air Force serviceman has been thing abbreviated of incredible. Sky Force is an untold communicative of grant , courageousness and patriotism that deserves to beryllium shared. Watch it successful cinemas starting tomorrow!”

Sky Force is helmed by Abhishek Anil Kapur and Sandeep Kewlani, and produced by Dinesh Vijan, Amar Kaushik, and Jyoti Deshpande, Sky Force is acceptable to deed theatres connected January 24, 2025, which is close successful clip for Republic Day weekend.