Sidharth Malhotra appeared on the final season of Koffee With Karan with his wife Kiara Advani, in their first joint appearance on the show. The show is hosted by Karan Johar. He spoke about his film The Vvaan: Force of the Forrest, saying people had already called it a flop before release. The conversation turned on how films are judged before they reach cinemas, and on what the industry owes its own work. Kiara Advani appeared alongside him, and the episode was their first time on the show together as a couple.
Sidharth Malhotra on The Vvaan
Sidharth Malhotra spoke about The Vvaan and the talk around it before release, and he put his view in plain terms. He said: “I think they are doing their job and we are doing our job. There is an India and there is a Bharat. I think Bharat is what is coming out to watch our films. They want to watch something rooted, something to them and rooted in culture. The Vvaan came perfectly fitting that bracket whether it is the writing, performance, whether it was sequences.” The words link the film to viewers he described as Bharat, and to stories he described as rooted in culture. The Vvaan drew on folklore around the Van Devi Temple near Bihta in Bihar, and it found audiences in Bihar and Jharkhand.
The film co-stars Tamannaah Bhatia, and Sidharth Malhotra spoke about it in the context of that response in Bihar and Jharkhand. The Vvaan collected Rs 91.49 crore worldwide, and it now streams on Prime Video. The box office total of Rs 91.49 crore worldwide came after people had already called it a flop before release, which was the point Sidharth Malhotra raised on the show. The film’s run in Bihar and Jharkhand was part of the story he told, and the folklore around the Van Devi Temple near Bihta in Bihar was the material the film drew on. The Vvaan is now on Prime Video for viewers who did not catch it in cinemas.
Sidharth Malhotra on criticism and theatres
Sidharth Malhotra also spoke about the industry itself, and about the tone of the talk around films. He said: “Of course. Our industry has more of that and nobody has anything good thing to say. What we need as a sense of an industry where people help each other.” The remark was his answer to a question about the industry, and it followed his point about The Vvaan being called a flop before release. His words ask for a change in how people in the industry talk about each other’s work, and for more help between people in the same line of work. The comment came in the same episode in which he appeared with Kiara Advani for the first time together on the show.
In the rapid fire round, Sidharth Malhotra had a short message for critics and viewers alike. He said: “Give your opinion, but it is not always about dissing or discouraging people to go to the theatres.” The line draws a line between giving an opinion and putting people off going to the cinema, and it fits with his wider point about backing films rather than talking them down before release. The rapid fire answer was brief, and it was one of the lines from the episode that was picked up in reports of the show. The episode is part of the final season of Koffee With Karan, hosted by Karan Johar.
Kiara Advani and the joint appearance
Kiara Advani also spoke on the episode, about trolling over intimate scenes in Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups. Her remarks were part of the same conversation, and they came in the episode in which she appeared with Sidharth Malhotra for the first time together on Koffee With Karan. The couple’s joint appearance was the frame for the episode, and the talk moved between his film The Vvaan and her experience of trolling over Toxic. The show is hosted by Karan Johar, and the season is the final season of Koffee With Karan. No further details of her remarks were given in the material for this article beyond the subject she spoke about.
The Vvaan, co-starring Tamannaah Bhatia, collected Rs 91.49 crore worldwide and now streams on Prime Video, after Sidharth Malhotra said people had already called it a flop before release.