‘Sacred Games’ viewer compares mob-lynching scene to an ‘item song’, gets slammed by co-director

So far, the web-series Sacred Games has been in a lot of controversy ever since it came out. Recently, Delhi MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa accused Anurag Kashyap of disrespecting Sikh religious sentiments for a scene that showed the protagonist throwing away his kada. Neeraj Ghaywan, co-director also got into an argument with a Twitter user on Sunday, when the latter claimed that Anurag Kashyap puts in unnecessary scenes like other directors put up item songs, comparing a mob-lynching scene to an item song.

The aforementioned scene shows a young Muslim boy got mob lynched. The Twitter user tweeted: "Other directors put an item number in their movies which has no connection with the story, Anurag kashyap put a mob-lynching in his show which had no connection with the story #SacredGamesS2."

Neeraj replied to the user saying that, “You didn’t have the courage to put up even a solidarity tweet when a real lynching has happened. And now to hide your lack of narrative understanding, you equate someone’s courage to put it up on a global platform as ‘item number’? Amazing!”

Comparing an emotive scene like that to an item song was something that angered the co-director. In another tweet, Neeraj wrote, "I directed the lynching scene. Surely you can say it didn’t work for YOU or that you didn’t get it. You have no idea how difficult it is put out something like that with your real name. And when you discredit it by appropriating it to something frivolous as item number, it hurts!"