Rohit Shetty’s Sooryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, with Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh in extended cameos has finally released on November 5 and the viewers have given a mixed response to the movie. Fans have obviously praised the massy nature of the movie but others have pointed out that the film is a complete waste of time because the director has infused jingoism with the bad  Muslims vs Indian Muslims angle.

Sooryavanshi takes forward Rohit’s cop universe with DCP Veer Sooryavanshi, Inspector Sangram Bhalerao, and DCP Bajirao Singham when they come together to stop a terrorist group planning to attack Mumbai. The film that opened to a good Rs 26.29 crore net on Day 1, managed to maintain its hold on Saturday. People are celebrating the return of cinemas and have been going to the theatres to catch a screening.

But, the movie is in the headlines for a not-so-positive reason. The screening was stopped in as many as five halls in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur after a group of farmers, protesting against the central farm laws, forced cinemas in the city to stop the screening. As per a report in PTI, activists of the Bharti Kisan Union (Kadian), led by the group’s district president Swaram Dhugga, staged a demonstration and a protest march from a local Shaheed Udham Singh Park to Swaran cinema against Sooryavanshi’s live screening.

Here’s the trailer:

They forced the cinema owners to stop the screening as they were pissed with the fact that Akshay Kumar didn’t tweet once in favour of the farmers who have been sitting at the Delhi borders since November last year demanding that the government repeal the three agri laws -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

They will not let the cinema theatres screen the movie until the farm laws are repealed.

We wonder how would the team of Sooryavanshi  react to this fiasco.

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