Siddharth Anand in his recent interview spoke about the dialogues of Fighter and how the Pulwama incident angered him.

When asked why his films like Pathaan and Fighter have Pakistan as the enemy, the director revealed that as an audience we need a face.

He further added that he did not want to make a completely fictitious film on the Air Force in a genre that is a little alien to the audience. So he wanted to ground it. He said, “Pulwama was an incident that really angered me. It was a movie waiting to happen on what they did.

We obviously had to fictionalize a lot of things around it. We had to name the organization that did it so we have named the organization, nothing else.”