Social Media Community Reacts To Bollywood Movie Showing Arfa Technology Towers As ISI Headquarters
Twitter is having quite an enjoyable time after the new Bollywood movie ‘Genius’ showed Lahore’s Arfa Technology Park as Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters – raising serious concerns about the research done prior to making (hilarious!)
The new Indian action thriller film directed by Anil Sharma, starring Mithun Chakraborty and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, made the buzz across social media after they featured the famed Arfa towers as the hub of the secret intelligence service.
Taking a hilarious dig at it, UNESCO Chair Umar Saif tweeted that Arfa Towers are making the buzz across the border now as well. He also mocked the writers, saying Bollywood needs better scriptwriters.
Arfa technology park making waves beyond borders.
P.S. Bollywood needs better script writers. pic.twitter.com/vCeff7GYSj
— Umar Saif (@umarsaif) September 18, 2018
Twitter users also pointed out more blunders they noticed, like the Arfa Towers, with being the ISI headquarters have also shown to be located in Islamabad rather than Lahore.
This #Bollywood movie shows Arfa Software Technology Park in #Lahore as #ISI #Headquarters #Islamabad! They probably just googled ‘famous buildings in Pakistan’ – wrote a user.
This #Bollywood movie shows Arfa Software Technology Park in #Lahore as #ISI #Headquarters #Islamabad! ?They probably just googled 'famous buildings in Pakistan' @umarsaif pic.twitter.com/9CnrqxpHyt
— Voice of Internet (@vointernet) September 18, 2018
Another user commented that the lack of accuracy shows the lack of research, they probably just googled ‘famous building in Pakistan’.
Hahahahahaha. ISI headquarters. Aman, what kind of weapons are you guys keeping there? ?
— Khansa Idrees (@KhansaIdrees) September 18, 2018
And Islamabad ?
— Khansa Idrees (@KhansaIdrees) September 18, 2018
Here are some of the other comments from the social media community:
So Arfa Kareem Software Technology Park got the headquarters of ISI too. Lmao!
— Muhammad Arshad Mukhtar (@arshadmukhtar92) September 18, 2018
Bara dushman bana phirta ha jo building se darta ha
— YaSiF یَاْسِفْ (@YasifChaudhry) September 18, 2018
Lol. Umar Saif ISI Chief??
— Shahid Iqbal (@shahid_iqbal452) September 18, 2018
Ha ha. ?
Sir, congratulations on becoming ISI Chief.— Zeshanawan_ (@Zeshanawan03) September 18, 2018
More funnier is that the building is shown to be in Islamabad, its not the script writer but the movie editor that is responsible for such obvious blunder.
— Yasir (@yasirwattu) September 18, 2018
Thats not ISI Headquarters, and thats NOT even Islamabad ???
Come in India, you're better than this, at least i Believe ?
— اسد الرحمن (@AsadRehman_) September 18, 2018
sir when and how u shifted your building in Islamabad??? ??
It must be in Guinness Book of World Record. ??
— Angry Bird ?️ (@angrbird674) September 18, 2018
Sir be alert people might declare you as an ISI agent after watching the movie ?
— Hasaan Ahmed (@hasaanprince33) September 18, 2018
hmm tau arfa tower main jasoosiyan bhi hoti hain ?? sanoo tay IT IT da dassya si ?
PS bollywood has already lost the plots— Usman Idrees (@usman_idrees990) September 18, 2018
Thanks to @CMShehbaz for such great projects
— Dr. Syed Muhammad Abuzar ? (@abuzardr) September 18, 2018
Though the movie is fictional, the team definitely still needed some qualified background check and better research to not be a laughing stock. If you are wondering what ISI headquarters was doing in the movie in the first place, the movie revolves around Vasudev Shastri (played by Utkarsh Sharma) who is a topper and comes to IIT. Due to his extraordinary expertise in the field, he is referred to as ‘genius’ around the campus. However, GENIUS also works part-time with Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and puts his unreal hacking techniques to use.
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