Defending Kabir Singh, Director Sandeep Vanga Says It’s Not True Love If You Can’t Slap Each Other

It has been weeks since Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani starrer Kabir Singh was released, but conversations and debates around it are still going on.

Did the movie romanticise misogyny, and was it a big problem? Everyone has put forth their opinions, but ever wondered what director Sandeep Reddy Vanga thinks about it?

He, in an interview recently, opened up about the entire controversy around his film, which is a remake of Telugu movie titled Arjun Reddy. Talking about it, he said, “When you are deeply in love and deeply connected to a woman (and vice versa), if you don’t have the liberty of slapping each other, then I don’t see anything there.”

Some of the critics had also lashed out at the director for the movie. Talking about that, he said, “Probably they never experienced (love) in the right way. They were only on the feminist side, they didn’t speak about anything else.” The director was surprised that the conversation was mostly centred around the themes, and not the technical aspects of his film. He said this was perhaps because “They (the critics) hate me.”

When asked if he wants to normalise the behaviour where men have the right to touch a woman without her permission, he said, “I have seen so many women and girls saying that we need someone like Arjun Reddy or Kabir Singh in our lives."

And people aren’t really happy with his statement.

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