Kabir Singh's director, Sandeep Vanga Reddy, says his interview was "modified"

New Delhi:

The director of Kabir Singh Senderep Vanga Reddy, now claims his controversial interview with Film Companion, in which he said The freedom to slap was "ill-conceived for a section of women to have a new chance to attack me" – probably the same section of women as those who screamed Kabir Singh extreme misogyny and that Mr. Reddy dismissed in his interview as people who had never been in love. Addressing the Deccan Chronicle, Mr. Reddy stated that he was simply trying to explain how the spirit of his protagonist was working and that Film Companion was cutting out portions of his (her) comments. . Sandeep Vanga Reddy has recently been accused of defending and perpetuating his film that presents a violent and badist version of love.

As the titles and ideas around his interview pile up, Sandeep Vanga Reddy told Deccan Chronicle, "I had to say What I had to say, and then cut out portions of my comments. Now, people do not know what I said before and after these comments.Tackle me.But I tried to explain the state of mind of my character.The violence Perhaps it's his way of expressing love.It's not mine. "

Perhaps the most controversial of Mr. Reddy's highly controversial remarks to Anupama film critic Chopra for Film Companion was about scenes in Kabir Singh showing the titular hero and his interest in sweet love, portrayed by Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani, slapping each other. "If you do not have the freedom to slap you, then I do not see anything there," said Mr. Reddy, adding, "If you can not slap, if you can not touch your wife where you want, if you can not kiss, I do not see any emotion there. "

When addressing Deccan Chronicle, Sandeep Vanga Reddy attempted to limit the damage. "I never said that it was necessary" to slap. All I wanted to say is that one must be totally honest in a committed relationship. And this honesty can take a violent form. And why only talk about Kabir to his girlfriend? the fact that she also slaps him back? It works both ways. How they express their love, it's their choice. Why do some people judge them? And judge me for the behavior of the character? can become crude and violent, "he said, a clarification that will hardly appease those who were troubled by Mr. Reddy's previous comments

Watch Film Companion's interview here:

Kabir Singh almost unanimously saved the story of an extreme personality driven deeper into a spiral by a failed novel, in its criticisms for normalization, even for the glorification of Violence and Toxic Masculinity Despite the problematic content of the film, however, it has stifled box-office competition, reaching the peaks of the stratosphere.At last count, it had made nearly 240 crores of rupees in just over two weeks, thus getting closer to the film collection of this year's greatest film, Uri: The Surgical Strike .

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