Pathaan director Siddharth Anand has opened up about why he chose an orange color bikini for Deepika Padukone’s song Besharam Rang.

In his interview with News18, the filmmaker said: "When we were in Spain, I chose that costume randomly. We never gave it a too much thought. The colour was looking nice.”

 He further said: “It was sunny, the grass was greener and the water was blue and the orange colour was looking good. We thought when the audience would watch it they would understand that our intent was not wrong.”

The 44-year-old director on the boycott campaign the film faced before its release said:  “They (the audience) proved the whole boycott movement wrong. And when you are calling for a boycott of a star or a movie, you are not seeing how many people’s livelihood is dependent on that particular movie especially if it works. "

"At least three hundred people work on a film every day. And when the shoot gets over so many VFX artists work on the post-production. It’s very easy to say boycott, that too, without reason," Siddharth added.