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.