"Cinema does not talk about perfect people"

Actor Shahid Kapoor said Monday that his film Kabir Singh described a flawed man in all honesty and if the audience only wanted to watch beautiful characters, the cinema will not go far. Kabir Singh is the remake of the hit Telugu Arjun Reddy directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, who also directed the Hindi version. Although the film quickly became furious after its release in 2017, it has been criticized for glorifying toxic masculinity and used anger as a tool to justify the abuses committed by the title person with regard to women and men. of his entourage. When asked if the critics he had before starting with the film in Hindi, the director told reporters: "Anger is a very special quality.There is nothing wrong with using anger as a tool It can be used anyway by an individual I do not think the opinion of the critics, what they mentioned during the Telugu movie (was playing) was in the back of my mind. "

Responding to criticism, Shahid sometimes said, "We are very hypocritical about the way we tend to look at Indian-made cinema."

"We then look at things made internationally and congratulate them for the fact that they are so honest, straight and that they do not always try to be politically correct.The cinema aims to introduce different people. not wonderful and perfect people, I think we are We all have gray areas in us, we go through positive and negative phases, "he said.

The actor, who was speaking at the launch of the movie trailer, said that everyone was angry, hurt a negative Nd at one point. "For me, watching a film like Kabir Singh will help you understand that when you let yourself be influenced by these things, you can go down the path of destruction. If you see something that concerns you, it will help you to have some sort of catharsis, "he said.

The Actor " Padmaavat " said for him, Kabir Singh is a cathartic film. "This honestly forces you to cross a man's course, without trying to cover it with sugar, because it's so manipulative.Sandeep has made an honest movie and people should watch it knowing that." If people only want to come to see people go hey hey ha ha & # 39; then the cinema will not go far. We must be able to make real movies. "

Asked about the treatment of the aggression in the original and about the fact that the producers avoided it in the remake, Shahid said that the interpretation of films with changing time could not "always show the good thing. "

" I Jab We Met Who was the aggressive character in the movie? I played the submissive character.In Padmaavat I was playing a much quieter character and now I'm doing Kabir Singh where I play an aggressive character, "he said.

The character is territorial to women, said Shahid in college. There are alpha men, men who feel they have a sense of territorial ownership over a certain place. "There are other men who do not have such an aggressive behavior, some films describe this kind of characters, this film describes this kind of character," he added.

However, when asked exactly where he justified the acts of his character, the actor said, "You see the movie and see what happens to it." Tommy Singh (In Udta Punjab ) does things much worse than Kabir Singh If I start to justify characters, I can not be an actor. "

Kabir Singh also featuring Kiara Advani, is due June 21st.

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