Recently, Saiyaara (2025) actor Aneet Padda's sister Reet Padda had shared screenshots on social media of her giving back to trolls and calling films like The Kashmir Files (2022), The Kerala Files (2023) and Dhurandhar (2026) as propaganda. Resultingly, she faced intense backlash on Instagram and now it seems like she has deleted her account.
After the backlash, she had initially switched her public account to private. However, it now appears that she has deleted it altogether, as searches for her profile return the message, “Sorry, this page isn’t available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed,” suggesting that the account is no longer accessible. Not just Instagram, Reet has also deleted her LinkedIn profile.
Few days back, while replying to a user in the comments section, Reet had talked about why she feels Dhurandhar is a propaganda film. She had written, “For Dhurandhar, it literally serves as a government-friendly narrative, using political speeches to justify, say, the minor hiccup of demonetisation. Call it propaganda? Yep. Deny it? Not a chance (sic).”
She also went on to explain the problems with films like The Kashmir Files and The Kerala Story. “These films apparently enjoy a bit of creative math: ~32,000 women converted to Islam. When real cases barely scrape a few hundred. But hey, how propaganda works, right? Take a sliver of truth, sprinkle in some absurdly inflated numbers, and suddenly you’ve got a full-blown narrative against a community,” she wrote.
Reet also stated how these films would have been fine but the bigger problem is that movies contrary to the government’s agenda don’t get a release. “Sure, I’d be chill with such films… if it weren’t for the teeny issue that movies like Panjab 95, which actually tackle political issues but stray from the ruling party’s script, can’t see the light of day.”
Although Dhurandhar: The Revenge is setting new records at the box office every day, the film is also being criticised for being a propaganda vehicle for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), especially with its presentation of the demonetisation move.