New Delhi: Shakun Batra’s Gehraiyaan was released on Amazon Prime Video last week. The movie has been getting mixed reviews from film critics as well as fans. The movie was a much-waited one and was based on the complexity of love, relationship, and infidelity. The movie starred Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Pandey, and Dhairya Karwa in the lead roles. The actors promoted the film quite well. However, the promotion of the film done by the writer’s father made him see the dark side of social media. The co-writer of the film, Sumit Roy’s father, Chandan Roy took to Twitter to celebrate his son’s hard work. Sharing Gehraiyaan’s poster, he wrote, “See the movie. My son Sumit is among the writers.” See the post here: See the movie. My son Sumit is among the writers. pic.twitter.com/wNdK5kGoKm — roychandan (@cretiredroy) February 12, 2022 Twitter users within seconds of the post, barged and backlash Mr Roy’s post. They ground the writer’s writing skills and shared their own opinion. One of the users stated, “Sir what was he thinking while writing this movie. Guess he really needs help,” while another one wrote, “Tell him to stop writing immediately and enroll into a school.” Sir what was he thinking while writing this movie. Guess he really needs help. — Mihir (@MihirPala) February 14, 2022 Tell him to stop writing immediately and enroll into a school. — Manish Sharma (@lion_india) February 12, 2022 Here are some other reactions: Sorry Mr Roy Chandan no offense but the sound engineer contributed more to the story than the writers.. ??#Gehraiyaan https://t.co/1SU8UwGYdx — Rao (@bubblebuster26) February 14, 2022 Sorry sir, but your son needs to write better scripts for real not some fiction family drama.. i mean there is scope in that as well but this was a bit lost in translation https://t.co/SyEuaL3b1S — Devesh Pant (@_DeveshPant) February 14, 2022 Uncle 15 min bohot mushkil se dekh paya mai fir aage himmat nahi hui.. Good luck to your son for his future work. ? — Siddharth (@sid_InDev) February 13, 2022 Tell him to quit https://t.co/SRzEZ8HOhO — Rahul Dubey (@iRahullDubey) February 14, 2022 However, love took over the haters online. Soon people in the comment section showered with love and lauded the sweet gesture of the father towards his son. Author Kavitha Rao wrote, “One sweet gent whose son has written the Gehraiyaan script is proudly talking about it on Twitter and people are barging in to tell him they didn't like it. This is what I mean by graciousness totally lacking these days. Let the man celebrate his son.” One sweet gent whose son has written the Gehraiyaan script is proudly talking about it on Twitter and people are barging in to tell him they didn't like it. This is what I mean by graciousness totally lacking these days. Let the man celebrate his son. — Kavitha Rao (@kavitharao) February 13, 2022 Others too spread love and congratulated Chandan Roy for his son’s success. Take a look: Congratulations ??❤️ — RichaChadha (@RichaChadha) February 14, 2022 Congratulations to you Sir! He’s done a splendid job. https://t.co/zsWLsEHTCC — Shruti Seth (@SethShruti) February 15, 2022 Such a father tweet! Congratulations, uncle for all the love that the film is receiving. Your son is a talent to watch out for. :) — Priyanka Sharma (@iPriyanka_S) February 13, 2022 Such a father tweet! Congratulations, uncle for all the love that the film is receiving. Your son is a talent to watch out for. :) — Priyanka Sharma (@iPriyanka_S) February 13, 2022 It's a lovely film, masterfully written. It made me wonder about the plot and characters for hours after it was over. Congratulations to your son and the writing team. — Diptakirti Chaudhuri (@diptakirti) February 13, 2022 Congratulations to your boy! Parenthood feels doubly amazing when children succeed — Aninda Sardar (@anindasardar) February 14, 2022 Congratulations Mr. Roy! — वरुण ?? (@varungrover) February 13, 2022 Although Mr Roy replied to the negative comments that were coming his way with his cunning sense of humour, he took to Twitter today to share his view on people trolling his son. “Actually all those who are giving negative comments don't have the idea how much struggle a person has to do to reach where he is now,” he wrote. “It is very easy to condemn but very tough to go through the grinding.”
