South Korean movie Parasite which brought laurels as the first Asian movie to win an Oscar in the main category seems to have rubbed more than just Donald Trump the wrong way [The US President was mighty disappointed that a Korean movie was awarded Best Film].
While critics over time have debated on whether or not Bong Joon Ho's black comedy on class divide was deserving of multiple Oscars (not to mention the prestigious Palme d'OR at Cannes Film Festival), Indian film-makers in particular seem to expressing their unfiltered thoughts about this widely-recognized movie.
After a Tamil film producer claimed that he will be taking legal action against Parasite makers on the basis that the movie shared a similar story-line with his own film Minsara Kanna, Telugu director S.S. Rajamouli has said in a TV interview that watching the movie "bored him" and that he "slept half-way through without finishing the film".
Naturally his comments made it to swift head-lines and the Indian netizens had some thoughts to share on the same.
Same here during Bahubali2 mother in law - daughter in law fight portion
— Shree Prakash (@shreeviews) April 20, 2020
Nope,it's Rajamouli opinion only. Ignore it what one person likes will not be liked by other person.
— Dhiraj Ganti (@DhirajGanti) April 20, 2020
Almost all Oscar movies are boring for general audience
— Vijay_K_Babu (@VijayKBabu2) April 20, 2020
Rajamouli is not half as good as Priyadarshan but holds twice the bigotry. Idk if he understood the movie but if he did, a closet right wing extremist like him is guaranteed to hate Parasite.
— ന (@mylastweets) April 22, 2020
Rajamouli himself is an elitist bigot. https://t.co/F8USo70ZHf pic.twitter.com/kKfY934uMD
— Jigidi Killaadi (@LetsGoCasteless) April 21, 2020
People who are trolling Rajamouli for voicing his opinion. '=' People who trolled Parvathy for voicing her opinion.
— Abhinav Sunder Nayak (@abhinavsnayak) April 22, 2020
According to me, they are two ends of the same spectrum. Just because Parasite won a Palme d'or and an Oscar, you can't give this a free pass. 😉
Same people hail when a Martin Scorsese says Marvel films are not cinema. Rajamouli atleast hasn't made such an objective judgement.
— Viswanath Viswanath (@viswanath_vis) April 22, 2020
SS Rajamouli found Parasite boring. Big Deal
— Germaphobe (@DexterousRd) April 23, 2020
Most of the people outside India and a significant section of Indians would find SSR's movies boring as well.
Parasite is a good movie. Those who liked it need not change their opinion just because Rajamouli didn't find it interesting 😊
— ʀᴀɢʜᴀᴠᴀ🇮🇳 (@raghava216) April 23, 2020