We have been hearing about Kabir Singh, Arjun Reddy hindi remake, being a very bad example for society about how to treat women and how toxic the masculinity portrayed in the film is.
Critics from 2 weeks have been all over the Internet bashing the film. Now, after movie scored more than 200 crores at the box office, Sandeep Reddy hit back on them.
He in an interview Anupama Chopra, film critic said, "I don't know that salt and pepper guy's name, Rajeev I believe, yes, Rajeev Masand, who said my movie is exhibition of toxic masculinity. I disagree with him completely.
I feel he and other critics are unhappy that movie became such a success and this popular opinion will curtail theirs'. I stand on the fact that Kabir Singh is about an epic love story that two crazy people share.
My women lead character Preeti doesn't talk much and that doesn't mean she is scared. There are people who don't talk much but they show their strength when required.
Rather than watching it as a presentation of a love story that these two particular characters shared, critics or pseudo version of intellectuals tried to generalise and mark my film as violent and hateful.
I now feel like showing them what violent film means. I did a film about love and they termed it as violent and vile. My next is an action drama which I am still scripting and once I finish it, then that will be answer to many about how violent action drama can get. For now, I did not even start complete work on it and I believe now, I have to!"
Critics from 2 weeks have been all over the Internet bashing the film. Now, after movie scored more than 200 crores at the box office, Sandeep Reddy hit back on them.
He in an interview Anupama Chopra, film critic said, "I don't know that salt and pepper guy's name, Rajeev I believe, yes, Rajeev Masand, who said my movie is exhibition of toxic masculinity. I disagree with him completely.
I feel he and other critics are unhappy that movie became such a success and this popular opinion will curtail theirs'. I stand on the fact that Kabir Singh is about an epic love story that two crazy people share.
My women lead character Preeti doesn't talk much and that doesn't mean she is scared. There are people who don't talk much but they show their strength when required.
Rather than watching it as a presentation of a love story that these two particular characters shared, critics or pseudo version of intellectuals tried to generalise and mark my film as violent and hateful.
I now feel like showing them what violent film means. I did a film about love and they termed it as violent and vile. My next is an action drama which I am still scripting and once I finish it, then that will be answer to many about how violent action drama can get. For now, I did not even start complete work on it and I believe now, I have to!"