22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
War 2 teaser triggers backlash after Pakistan's Independence day mention
Hrithik Roshan's biceps are out. Jr NTR is locked and loaded. Kiara Advani makes a blink-and-you-miss-it appearance. And yet, the loudest thing to come out of the War 2 teaser? A date. Yep. A date has launched a digital war.
The Movie War 2 is Coming this Independence DayBut the Date given on the Trailer of the Movie is 14th August which is Independence Day of Pakistan Another Example that Bollywood Loves Pakistan!
The teaser dropped like a cinematic bomb, packed with everything a spy thriller should have, explosions, swag, cryptic one-liners, and that signature HRX intensity. It even opens with a dramatic 'This Independence Day' title card, setting the tone for patriotic feels. And then, BOOM: 14 August flashes on the screen. Cue record scratch.
Whose Independence day War 2 team is celebrating on August 14th?
For context, 14 August is not India's Independence Day. It is Pakistan's. You can imagine what happened next. Social media imploded. 'Whose Independence Day are you celebrating?' one confused user questioned, while another claimed Bollywood has entered its 'love letter to Pakistan' era. Others dragged the release strategy, calling it 'a total marketing blunder' and even 'insensitive.'
Netizens react
Some fans were genuinely baffled: 'Since when did India become independent on 14th August?' Others were just done: 'Someone please tell Hrithik this is India, not Pakistan.' Oof.
And it is not like the teaser was dull, Hrithik Roshan is in top-tier spy shape, Kiara's look turned heads, and Jr NTR's presence promises serious fireworks. Still, all of that got buried under a tsunami of memes and sarcastic digs.
War 2 is celebrating pakistani independence day @yrf thuuu pakistani na kodaka 🤬Aug 14 evari independence day raa pooka @yrf
War 2
To add salt to the cinematic wound, many viewers were already missing Tiger Shroff from the first War. Now with the date drama? The comparisons and complaints are flowing faster than Kiara's slo-mo hair flip.
Directed by Ayan Mukerji and produced by Aditya Chopra, War 2 is the sixth film in YRF's expanding Spy Universe. Hrithik reprises his role as Kabir, the brooding superspy, and this time he faces off against Jr NTR in what is being hyped as the most explosive face-off yet.
But right now, the real explosion is happening on social feeds, not on screen. Whether this was a clever marketing ploy or a case of someone at YRF forgetting to check a calendar, it has overshadowed everything else in the teaser.
Moral of the story? In a film all about timing, even one wrong date can trigger an international-level plot twist.
