India, Feb. 14 -- Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has spoken out against the backlash film critics receive from actors' fan clubs when they write negative reviews. The filmmaker has called all such social media attacks 'coordinated' and said backlash by fan clubs is a 'social media construct'.

In a conversation with film critic Sucharita Tyagi on her YouTube channel, Anurag addressed the backlash critics face from fans over negative reviews, citing Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar. "This backlash thing is again a social media construct. There was a great article in The New Yorker about how fan clubs were created in the South to create heroes. A lot of it is not organic. I genuinely believe it is not organic. I will talk about a recent film, Dhurandhar....