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Very angry, highly sexist young man

Telugu original with its brilliant rendering of the hero by Vijay Deverakonda works better than Kabir Singh

Still from Kabir Singh
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Still from Kabir Singh

Ritwik Sharma
First we had the angry young man. Now with the Hindi film Kabir Singh, we have an extremely angry and sexist young man; audiences and critics who have slammed the film’s aggressive and toxic masculinity; and approving audiences that, like the director himself, have criticised the criticism levelled at the movie.
 
Even in our post-truth world where people are divided over seemingly absolutely everything, arguably no other movie in recent times has quite split public opinion like Kabir Singh. Interestingly, the critical reception of the Telugu original, Arjun Reddy, which was adapted into the Hindi version starring Shahid Kapoor, was

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