Mumbai: As soon as netizens learnt that gangster Vikas Dubey’s car turned turtle on the road and he was killed in a police encounter on Friday, they started trending Rohit Shetty’s name on Twitter, as the filmmaker is known for flying cars in his films.
Netizens had a great time posting memes and jokes about the Bollywood filmmaker.
Rohit Shetty is known for dangerous car stunts in his movies. Blasting cars or turning cars turtle are some common stunts in his action-packed movies.
Some action-packed films helmed by Rohit Shetty include ‘Singham’, ‘Chennai Express’, ‘Dilwale’ and ‘Simmba’.
Hence, when netizens learnt about Vikas Dubey’s car turning turtle due to heavy rain, they could easily relate the incident with Rohit Shetty’s films.
Here are some of the hilarious tweets:
“When Rohit Shetty heard ‘fake encounter’ aur gaadi palat gayi (and the car overturned) #FakeEncounter,” tweeted a user along with a photo of the filmmaker.
“Rohit Shetty just CopyRight Claim to #UPPolice -for stealing his movie script,” joked another user.
“Rohit Shetty is happy that he won’t have to pay for the script of his new movie. Time and money saved,” wrote another user.
Some netizens even felt that the death of gangster Vikas Dubey would be an ideal script for Rohit’s “Singham 3”.
Jokes and memes flooded Twitter and Rohit Shetty’s name started trending on the social media platform for no obvious reason.
