Hyderabad, Dec. 11 -- Dhurandhar, the recent Hindi spy movie directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh, has gotten itself mired in more controversy after India's Film Critics Guild issued a statement claiming that its critical reviews have invited harassment and targeted attacks on journalists and movie critics.

"What began as disagreement has rapidly devolved into coordinated abuse, personal attacks on individual critics, and organised attempts to discredit their professional integrity," the statement read.

The statement can be traced to Anupama Chopra's review of the movie on Hollywood Reporter India, which received massive backlash and was subsequently made private for reasons unknown. In her review, accessed in clips since ...