India, Dec. 4 -- Yami Gautam Dhar has ignited a significant discussion in the film industry with a forceful post on X, just one day ahead of the theatrical release of her husband and filmmaker Aditya Dhar's directorial, Dhurandhar, slated for December 5, 2025. In her statement, she slams the Bollywood industry for what she describes as an "extortion-like" culture of sponsored marketing and false negative press.

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In an extensive post, Gautam scathingly denounced what she called a "kind of extortion"-the "trend of giving money, in the disguise of marketing a film, to ensur...