Zakir Khan the comedian created controversy when he mocked Bollywood after Aditya Dhar's film Dhurandhar achieved box office success with Ranveer Singh.

Siddharth Anand the filmmaker has responded to the insult by showing how artists from Bandra and Juhu who work in Mumbai have built the Hindi film industry.

Siddharth who has directed movies such as Pathaan and Fighter used his X account to criticize the statement.

He defended the Juhu Bandra group without mentioning Zakir by name to show their importance to the film industry.

He wrote, “Juhu Bandra peeps have given all ATBBs (all time blockbusters) since the past 50 years. You have to be a real duffer to undermine their contribution.”

Many people believed that the Bandra-Juhu statement responded to Zakir's claim which said that people from the film fraternity who lived in these suburbs experienced anger because of Dhurandhar's achievement.

Speaking at the Screen Awards 2026 recently, the comedian had said, “Bomb film mein foote Lyari mein par dhuan udaa hai Bandra se Juhu mein (There were bomb blasts in Lyari in the film, but there was smoke between Bandra and Juhu).”

Social media users were quick to connect the dots flooding the conversation with their own takes and reactions.

“This tweet proves Zakir's joke though,” one wrote, with another sharing, “This post only amplifies what Zakir Khan said.”