Yasir Hussain has weighed in on the success of Border 2, calling out Sunny Deol for once again fronting a film that glorifies war and feeds into the familiar cycle of anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim nationalism that Bollywood has increasingly leaned on in recent years.

Deol, whose latest film outing has crossed the $22 million mark at the box office since its January 23 release, shared a celebratory Instagram video last week. In the comments, Hussain offered a pointed response. Addressing Deol respectfully, he wrote that while he had grown up watching and admiring his films, “love reaches hearts, hatred doesn’t.”

He added that Border 2’s voice had only reached “the hearts of haters” and urged Deol to make at least one film like Ikkis, his father, the late Dharmendra’s anti-war project that focused on the human cost of conflict rather than chest-thumping nationalism.