After being trolled, ‘Gahreiyaan’ writer’s father pours out support

,depths‘ opened to mixed reviews last week.

A proud father had to deal with the ugly side of social media when his post celebrating his son’s work was flooded with hate comments. Chandan Roy shared a tweet urging people to watch depths As his son was among the film’s writers – but a section of the internet used his post to tell him how little they think about the Deepika Padukone-starrer. depthsDirected by Shakun Batra, released last week to mixed reviews. While many viewers said they enjoyed the film, others were more critical and slammed it for a poor script, underdeveloped characters, and a complicated plot, among other things.

Chandan Roy, whose son Sumit Roy co-wrote the film, shared a graphic highlighting some of the more positive reviews depths Received. He wrote, “Watch the film. My son Sumit is one of the writers.”

The response was swift and forgiving. Several Twitter users took to the comment section of Mr Roy’s post to share their opinion about the film.

However, the tide soon turned in Mr. Roy’s favor as more and more people started saying that a father’s post celebrating his son’s achievements should not become a pool of negative reviews.

“A lovely gentleman whose son wrote depths The script is proudly talking about it on Twitter and people are flocking to tell her that she didn’t like it. That’s what I mean there is a complete lack of grace these days. Let the man celebrate his son,” wrote writer Kavita Rao.

Another Twitter user agreed, saying it was “completely graceless and unnecessary.”

Mr. Roy soon found huge support on the microblogging platform. Many celebrities also congratulated him when his tweet went viral. Among those wishing him were actors Richa Chadha and Shruti Seth, as well as National Award winning lyricist Varun Grover.

While Mr Roy reacted to some negative comments coming his way, he took to Twitter this morning to share his view on people trolling his son. He wrote, “Indeed all those who are making negative comments have no idea how much struggle it takes for a person to get to where he is now.” “It is very easy to condemn but very hard to pass through the grind.”

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