Did Kiran Rao take a dig at Sandeep Reddy Vanga in Laapataaa Ladies? Here’s why netizens think she did

Kiran Rao is receiving rave response for her latest directorial Laapataa Ladies. While promoting the flick, her feud with Animal director Sandeep Reddy Vanga grabbed attention. As the film releases on OTT, a dialogue from it has gone viral and netizens believe that Kiran Rao has taken a dig at Sandeep Reddy Vanga.

Did Kiran Rao take a dig at Sandeep Reddy Vanga?

In Laapataa Ladies, Phool Kumari (Nitanshi Goel) was left behind at a station and Manju Maai (Chhaya Kadam) reluctantly took her in; she told Phool that her husband could have left her behind at the station on purpose even as the latter defended him. During their discussion, Manju talked about her marriage and told Phool that her husband would beat her. Manju said, “A man who loves you has the right to beat you. One day, I exercised my right as well.”

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The dialogue has everyone thinking that it was a dig at Vanga, who defended Kabir Singh’s slap scene with the same line in an interview in 2019.

What went wrong between Kiran Rao and Sandeep Reddy Vanga?

For the unversed, Vanga was addressing the controversial slap scene in Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani starrer Kabir Singh in an interview with Film Companion. At the time, the director said, “If you can’t touch your woman, wherever you want, and if you can’t slap, you can’t kiss, you can’t use cuss words. I don’t see the emotion there.”

In November 2023, Kiran discussed the glorification of stalking in Bollywood in an interview when she brought up Kabir Singh. Earlier this year, Sandeep addressed the statement in an interview and took a dig at Kiran without naming her. “My AD showed me an article. It is of the second ex-wife of a superstar. She is saying that films like Bahubaali 2 and Kabir Singh promote misogyny and stalking. I think she does not know the difference between stalking and approaching. When people read these things out of context, they tend to agree. This is entirely wrong,” the Animal director said.

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