'Men beat girlfriends, run cars over people': Fans troll Salman Khan over his recent statement about men

As Salman Khan joined his father Salim Khan and his work partner Javed Akhtar at the trailer launch of the docu-series Angry Young Men, the Bollywood superstar made a comment that hasn't gone down well with many. While praising the duo and calling them a true reflection of what men are, he said that this generation of men doesn't want to be men anymore.

Salman Khan trolled over his controversial comment about men

Today¡¯s generation doesn¡¯t aspire to manhood - Salman Khan

They want to look like Korean or Western chapris#SalmanKhan pic.twitter.com/hMf0InFtG2

¡ª Surajit (@surajit_ghosh2) August 14, 2024

Angry fans slammed him for allegedly beating his girlfriend, running car over people and killing deer. "Yeah, they aren't openly abusing women, transporting people to heaven by car and then roaming freely, that too Chhathi Phoolake, as if they own the world. Sahi hai," one of them wrote. "Unless being a man means hitting your partner, killing people and animals and getting away with it, and threatening people, then we don't want such men either," added another user. "Why men not beating up girlfriends, killing deers or Running Cars over people," a third comment read.

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What did Salman Khan say?

At the event, Salman Khan said that, unlike other writers who simply write, his father and Javed Akhtar had put their life experiences into their writings and that's what makes them different. He said their own experiences were visible on the big screen back then while other writers took things from existing cinema and put it back in the cinema.

What he said next has sparked controversy. He added, "God makes men, they don¡¯t want to be men anymore... He makes a lot of men. But this generation, they do not want to be men. These two here, my father and Javed Sahab, they are men, they are still men and they want to be men."

THIS GENERATION THEY DON'T WANT TO BE A MAN

What a legendary line said by Mr. SALMAN KHAN SIR for todays generation kids ??#SalmanKhan pic.twitter.com/oxdfTN5JLh

¡ª Avinash Singh Rathore (@AtoZsalmanbhai) August 13, 2024

For the unversed, Javed-Salim was an iconic writer duo who worked on 24 films between 1971 and 1987 including some of the popular names Haathi Mere Saathi, Seeta Aur Geeta, Zanjeer, Sholay, Deewar and Don among others. Out of these 24 films, 20 were commercially and critically successful. Now, a docu-series Angry Young Men, based on their journey and produced by Salman Khan Films, Excel Media & Entertainment, and Tiger Baby, has been made and it will stream on Prime Video on August 20. Watch the trailer below.

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