Actor Abhishek Banerjee will be reprising the role of Compounder in the Mirzapur film scheduled to release tomorrow. Ahead of the release, Abhishek gave his opinion on the criticisms around the series over its heavy violence and strong language.

The series has various gory sequences and uses colourful expletives and viewers often claim that such content may encourage violence. Abhishek, however, said that films do not endorse violence but they only serve as a mirror to society.

Comparing Mirzapur to films such as Sholay, Animal and Dhurandhar which faced similar criticisms, Abhishek told The Free Press Journal, “Critics said the same thing for Sholay, Animal and Dhurandhar. Whenever there is violence on screen, it will happen. But the reality is that whatever we see on screen, is an inspiration from life. And trust me, a lot more gruesome violence is happening on the streets.”

“This is just a depiction of a fictitious world, fictitious characters. And as I said, that's supposed to be for fun. And audiences are smart enough to learn what they want to. It's completely subjective how an audience watches a film. And I don't think film causes violence. It's always the other way around. It's because there's so much violence in the world. In films, we have to depict that with as much honesty as we can.”

Other than Abhishek Banerjee, Mirzapur: The Movie, set to release on September 4, also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Divyenndu, Jitendra Kumar and Ravi Kishan.