Netizens give massive thumb down to Sadak 2 trailer, apologise to Sanjay Dutt

The trailer of Mahesh Bhatt's comeback directorial feature Sadak 2 has met the same fate as film's poster in June. The trailer released on Wednesday was almost immediately fending against massive trolling and hatred. While more netizens are hitting thumbs down button on YouTube, the trollers are extending apologies to Sanjay Dutt who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Mumbai: The trailer of the upcoming Mahesh Bhatt directorial, Sadak 2, was released on Wednesday morning and within a few hours, the number of dislikes on the video widely surpassed the number of likes on it. Interestingly, many netizens are trolling the trailer with apologies to Sanjay Dutt, cast member of the film who has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Mahesh Bhatt's film stars his daughters Pooja and Alia Bhatt along with Aditya Roy Kapur, youngest brother for bigwig producer Siddharth Roy Kapur. The film has been drawing ire on social media as a shining instance of Bollywood nepotism, since shortly after Sushant Sing Rajput's death.

Many netizens are also upset over Mahesh Bhatt's alleged links with Sushant Singh Rajput's girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, who has been charged in an FIR by the late actor's father KK Singh, with abetment to suicide among other allegations.

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The trailer released by Fox Star Hindi on their YouTube channel had drawn 280K likes and over 5 mn dislikes at the time of publishing this story.

In July, the Nepometer an app created by Sushant Singh Rajput's family had rated Sadak 2 as 98 per cent nepotistic. Fans of the late Bollywood actor have been actively campaigning on social media since the past few weeks urging everyone to boycott Sadak 2.

Soon after the trailer release, memes celebrating the dislike trend flooded Twitter and Facebook throughout the day. However, even though netizens targeted the Bhatt family, they showed their sympathy towards lead actor of the film, Sanjay Dutt who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer.