Updated On: 28 September, 2022 07:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
With Chup revolving around reviewers being killed, director Balki explains why he roped in one of his harshest critics to co-write the film

Dulquer Salmaan and Shreya Dhanwanthary in the film
R Balki remembers that one of the early reviews of his directorial debut `Cheeni Kum` (2007) was so scathing that he stopped reading them altogether. It’s almost his way of delivering poetic justice that in his latest film `Chup: Revenge of the Artist`, a serial killer attacks movie critics. “How can it be such an unfair world where someone can write something and get away with it? It is sometimes agenda-based. I thought of this story in 2010,” he begins.