Rohit Shetty's long awaited action flick 'Sooryavanshi' finally released theatrically earlier this week and it is blowing up on box office. The general audience also seems to be satisfied with the film but there are some who found the villains to be problematic. The film is being criticised for its stereotypical and polarising portrayal of Muslims as bad guys.

Rohit Shetty recently to responded to these allegations and issued a clarification about the same. Citing the example of previous films in the series, Rohit said, “If I ask you one question, Jaykant Shikre was Hindu a Marathi, in this universe second came a Hindu Godman was there, then in Simmba a Maharashtrian again. In these three negative forces were Hindu. Why isn’t that a problem?”

Explaining his point further, the filmmaker said, “If there is a terrorist who is from Pakistan, what caste will he be? It changed my point of view of a few journalists whom I used to like. That oh, they are portraying it like I have seen in brackets somebody writing bad Muslims being preached by upper-caste Hindus, which is very wrong. We never thought that way.”