Kabir Singh director Sandeep Reddy Vanga received flak after his interview with journalist Anupama Chopra. Now the director has taken a U-turn on his own controversial statement. He has said that the interview was edited in a wrong way.
He told a media portal, “I had to say what I had to say. And then they cut out portions of my comments. Now people don’t know what I said before and after those comments. The content was edited in a very wrong way so that a section of women got another chance to attack me. But I was trying to explain my protagonist’s mindset. Violence may be his way of expressing love, it’s not mine.”
In an interview with the Anupama Chopra earlier, the director has defended the film’s protagonist and his girlfriend–played by Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani–hitting each other as an expression of love.
He said in a statement “When you are deeply in love and deeply connected to a woman (and vice versa), if you don’t have the liberty of slapping each other, then I don’t see anything there,” he had said. “She slapped him without a reason, at least Kabir had a reason to slap her. If you can’t slap, if you can’t touch your woman wherever you want, if you can’t kiss, I don’t see the emotion there.”
The director also targeted critic Rajeev Masand by calling him fat in his interview. He said “It’s not as if I am hitting out at all critics. Some have been deliberately below-the-belt. You could literally see the hatred (for the film) in their eyes.
Despite the criticism, the movie is soaring high on its success and has minted Rs 239 crore so far.
Post-criticism, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga defends self says “I was misquoted”
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