Aamir Khan's much-awaited film, 'Laal Singh Chaddha' will be hitting the theatres in a couple of days. However, ahead of its release, the film became the unwilling center of controversy when some social media users went through the archives and dug up Aamir's controversial, "India's growing intolerance" statement and circulated it on the micro-blogging site. In 2015, Aamir Khan said in an interview, "Our country is very tolerant, but there are people who spread ill-will". His wife Kiran Rao also made headlines for saying that she considered leaving the country for the safety of their children.

Reacting to the old statement by the actor, a section of netizens have been putting up posts asking people to boycott the film. Hashtags such as #BoycottLaalSinghChaddha and #Boycottaamirkhan have been trending over the past week.