Bollywood filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri has mocked the waterlogging at Delhi’s Institute of Town Planners India after the recent heavy rains in the national capital Delhi. Highlighting the issues of waterlogging in town planning, the director has called Indian cities ‘monuments of ugliness’. Recently, ANI shared a video of workers pumping out water from the building of the Institute of Town Planners India. The director has reacted to this water pumping itself.
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Reacting to the video shared on the internet, Vivek wrote on his Instagram handle, “Hahahaha. Nothing can be more ironic than this. Indian cities are monuments of ugliness, inconvenience, non-disaster management, and risk to life. We have completely failed in town planning.” After this comment of Vivek Agnihotri, people agreed with his post. One user wrote, ‘You are absolutely right Vivek. This is the condition of the capital Delhi.’
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Another user wrote, ‘The situation in Delhi can never improve. It happens like this every time.’ At the same time, some people targeted the government and criticized it and said that nothing is known when the Delhi government will work for this. Recently, Delhi received heavy rains on the morning of 31 July and 1 August. Waterlogging has occurred in many places, while heavy traffic was also seen in some places. The IMD has issued a warning of intermittent rain till August 5.
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Vivek is very active on social media and often criticizes municipal corporations for poor infrastructure, especially during the monsoon season. He is also quite vocal on various social and political issues in the country. Meanwhile, on the work front, Vivek is all set to make a comeback with ‘Parva – An Epic Tale of Dharma’, which is said to be based on the Hindu epic Mahabharata. In October 2023, the filmmaker shared the first look of the film.