Scholars and critics also focus on the technical and commercial strategies employed by director Siddharth Anand.
Research in Academia.edu identifies a "significant shift" in the relationship between Bollywood stars and fans, where the film’s success was seen as a collective act of fandom resisting external boycott calls. Scholars and critics also focus on the technical
Scholarly essays in Sage Journals examine the film's investigation of national belonging. Scholars like Ira Bhaskar view it as an intervention against propaganda that questions the loyalty of Indian Muslims, while Shohini Ghosh analyzes the "kinetic rush" of the film as a new mode of political communication. Scholars and critics also focus on the technical