Kiara Advani on ‘Kabir Singh’ controversy: Unfortunately, some people just made the whole movie about the slap

Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani starrer ‘Kabir Singh’ landed into a huge controversy. Though many bought into the story of ‘Kabir Singh’ but the movie faced a lot of backlash from a section of audience and critics for glorifying toxic masculinity and misogyny. But still, it was one of the most successful films of 2019.

On Neha Dhupia’s chat show, ‘No Filter Neha’, Kiara opened up about the backlash and criticism the movie faced. She said, “I was happy when ‘Guilty’ came out and ‘Good Newwz’ came out and people were like okay, wow, she’s a versatile actress and you know I’ve got all the critical acclaim for. But, with ‘Kabir’, I think, it was, I was very nervous before the film release because I was aware that section of backlash would come because we saw it happen with the first film. So, we knew it would happen.”

Kiara said that they weren’t expecting the backlash would be so much. Talking about the final scene, she said, “For me, that scene showed her strength, she wasn’t just going to just go back to the man she loved. She decided to raise a child on her own, she left, she left him, she left the man her parents forced her to marry. I just felt she was not the woman that maybe other people saw her to be till that interval and I felt unfortunate for those people who did have the comments of misogyny and all of that which of course there is a part of the character but that’s something that was always known to the audience when you see it in the promos also.”

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While talking about the slap that her character got from Shahid’s character, Kiara said, “Unfortunately, some people just made the slap, the whole movie about one slap. It was not about one slap. That’s not something that I stand for. And, that’s not something that I would ever stand for and that’s not something Preeti stood for, either. Because she left him, she’s like no way, you have ruined whatever we’ve had this entire issue and she doesn’t go back to him and he comes finding her and even in that moment she doesn’t want to see his face but they have a confrontation and that’s what their climax scene, I think was 20 minutes long, where everything is discussed, argued and I guess, love is love at the end of the day. They both come back together.”

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