Sandeep Reddy Vanga is the director of Arjun Reddy and the remake of the film, Kabir Singh in Hindi. Both versions became huge blockbusters and Hindi version opened a discussion about whether the film is trivial, toxic and bad to women!
Sandeep after most of top National critics said that the movie displays toxic masculinity, he thrashed them in an interview and said that he doesn't believe in the ideals of pseudo feminists and fake people.
Then, he said, "I believe in a love where both partners are able to slap, use cuss words and touch wherever they want each other. If they have problems with such expression then I don't believe they are in love!"
These words have been twisted by some social media sites and Samantha reacted to a post or a quote, saying, "Deeply Disturbing!" She did not see the interview or did not try to understand what the director meant by that!
Her friend, Chinmayi Sripada took the discussion to next level and at times flipped from the discussion and said, "A man should NEVER slap a woman!" The director tried to defend Preeti slapping Arjun in the film and also in a lighter vein said that he doesn't want his son to become Arjun Reddy, in real life.
The entire interview was handled in a poised manner by Anupama Chopra and Sandeep Reddy. Sandeep did get slightly aggressive and lost his temper slightly expressing frustration on the reviews he got. He directly took names of famous reviewers and criticised their view points.
Once Samantha gets involved and Chinmayi Sripada pushes the debate in one direction, we normally see Mahesh Fans who are still hurt about Samantha's comments on Nenokkadine poster and people who genuinely hate slightly one sided debates by Chinmayi on social media giving more attention and trolls start their work.
But the important discussion and context have been lost in all this. Samantha Akkineni could have tried to watch the video before commenting and Chinmayi, at least could have not criticised the budding director of one film, with too many harsh words.
Sandeep struggled hard to make the movie for two years and then, he took it to Hindi because some producer felt it can work there too and actors accepted the script.
When Shahid Kapoor, Kiara Advani and producers are not being called toxic for accepting such a film which in their mind celebrates wrong masculinity then why are they after Sandeep, who put forward his views?
He did not write Bhagavadgeeta, Quran or Bible or even Constitution of India or any country. He is just a filmmaker who is just one film old and he still has to try another story for us to at least understand his thinking and his style of filmmaking.
For few words he used in an Interview, that will be forgotten after 10 days and for a film that will be remembered more for its box office run and for telling a story of a talented loser, this kind of reaction seems too harsh. He seems to be getting too much of attention and being dragged into deep waters that he doesn't deserve to be drowned into.
He is just a filmmaker like others who made Great Grand Masti, Ramleela, Dabangg, Ready, Race 3, etc. Giving so much importance to him or his view might help him or might help the others to get some attention but bigger concern of stopping abuse of women, or finding a solution to change men who are really toxic, who rape women, gets no attention and no debate when popular people end up getting ridiculed and are taken lightly for reacting to reactive things!
Sandeep after most of top National critics said that the movie displays toxic masculinity, he thrashed them in an interview and said that he doesn't believe in the ideals of pseudo feminists and fake people.
Then, he said, "I believe in a love where both partners are able to slap, use cuss words and touch wherever they want each other. If they have problems with such expression then I don't believe they are in love!"
These words have been twisted by some social media sites and Samantha reacted to a post or a quote, saying, "Deeply Disturbing!" She did not see the interview or did not try to understand what the director meant by that!
Her friend, Chinmayi Sripada took the discussion to next level and at times flipped from the discussion and said, "A man should NEVER slap a woman!" The director tried to defend Preeti slapping Arjun in the film and also in a lighter vein said that he doesn't want his son to become Arjun Reddy, in real life.
The entire interview was handled in a poised manner by Anupama Chopra and Sandeep Reddy. Sandeep did get slightly aggressive and lost his temper slightly expressing frustration on the reviews he got. He directly took names of famous reviewers and criticised their view points.
Once Samantha gets involved and Chinmayi Sripada pushes the debate in one direction, we normally see Mahesh Fans who are still hurt about Samantha's comments on Nenokkadine poster and people who genuinely hate slightly one sided debates by Chinmayi on social media giving more attention and trolls start their work.
But the important discussion and context have been lost in all this. Samantha Akkineni could have tried to watch the video before commenting and Chinmayi, at least could have not criticised the budding director of one film, with too many harsh words.
Sandeep struggled hard to make the movie for two years and then, he took it to Hindi because some producer felt it can work there too and actors accepted the script.
When Shahid Kapoor, Kiara Advani and producers are not being called toxic for accepting such a film which in their mind celebrates wrong masculinity then why are they after Sandeep, who put forward his views?
He did not write Bhagavadgeeta, Quran or Bible or even Constitution of India or any country. He is just a filmmaker who is just one film old and he still has to try another story for us to at least understand his thinking and his style of filmmaking.
For few words he used in an Interview, that will be forgotten after 10 days and for a film that will be remembered more for its box office run and for telling a story of a talented loser, this kind of reaction seems too harsh. He seems to be getting too much of attention and being dragged into deep waters that he doesn't deserve to be drowned into.
He is just a filmmaker like others who made Great Grand Masti, Ramleela, Dabangg, Ready, Race 3, etc. Giving so much importance to him or his view might help him or might help the others to get some attention but bigger concern of stopping abuse of women, or finding a solution to change men who are really toxic, who rape women, gets no attention and no debate when popular people end up getting ridiculed and are taken lightly for reacting to reactive things!