S Shankar Faces Severe Trolling For His Next Venture

Things are not going good at all for S Shankar.

The director recently announced his next project, Velpari. The fantasy drama is based on the popular novel of Su Venkatesan titled Veera Yuga Nayagan Velpari.

So what is the problem? At a recent event, Shankar revealed that his upcoming venture Velpari will be the Indian equivalent of the iconic classics like Game of Thrones and Avatar. This triggered a massive backlash online, especially from several cinema lovers who hadn’t forgiven him for his recent movies.

Once known for delivering one cult classic after the other, S Shankar’s profile took a downturn after the 2015 romantic drama I, which was loosely based on Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the fairytale Beauty and the Beast. Shankar’s 2.0 was commercially successful, but people didn’t find it as attractive as the original movie.

Shankar took a sabbatical in order to work on his magnum opus, Indian 2, which would be the sequel to his own classic from 1996. Since the final product was nearly six hours long, Shankar had to cut it down to two movies : Indian 2, and Indian 3, much like Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur.

However, despite employing some of the greatest actors in the movie, Indian 2 turned out to be a washout at the box office. Shankar’s attempt at a comeback through his Telugu debut in Game Changer backfired as well, which turned out to be another disaster at the box office.