The director of Kabir Singh has a problem with “pseudo” criticism.
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00:00If you can't slap, if you can't touch your woman wherever you want, and if you can't
00:07slap, you can't kiss, you can't use cuss words, I don't see emotion there.
00:30Did you anticipate the criticism?
00:45See, there's a part of criticism happened in Arjun Reddy as well, but this was a little bizarre.
00:53Why was it bizarre?
00:55Because I always believe that people get angry when you go beyond their belief pattern.
01:05When you question their belief system, I think people get angry.
01:10I think that's what happened and it is not even a healthy criticism.
01:15It's very pseudo.
01:17What do you mean, Sandeep, when you say it's pseudo?
01:19So here's some of the things I read, you know, it said that it's the sort of Bahubali of toxic masculinity.
01:27There were female critics who said to me that they felt really uncomfortable during the press screening
01:33because the men clapped when Kabir slaps Preeti.
01:37Why do you say it's pseudo?
01:39I feel it's pseudo because, you know, when you are deeply in love,
01:45when you are deeply connected with a woman or vice versa, I mean, there's a lot of honesty in it.
01:53And if you don't have that physical demonstration of, if you don't have the liberty of slapping each other,
02:01then I don't see anything there.
02:03So I feel this woman who are talking about this, I feel that they were never in love.
02:11Probably they were never experienced it in the right way.
02:14Maybe they might be thinking what is right and wrong while they were expressing, I don't know, their personal lives.
02:20But I can clearly see that they have never experienced it and it's new to them.
02:24Have you ever felt that Preeti was threatened when he was kissing?
02:27No, but it made me uncomfortable.
02:29But why didn't she slap him then?
02:31That's what I wonder. Why didn't she slap him?
02:34And she slapped him a couple of times in the film and nobody had a problem.
02:36Right, she slaps him later.
02:38And she slapped him without a reason at least.
02:40Kabir has a reason to slap.
02:42And if you can't slap, if you can't touch your woman wherever you want,
02:47and if you can't slap, you can't kiss, you can't use cuss words,
02:52I don't see emotion there.
02:54Then it's all margins in papers, red pen, blue pen, all that.
02:58There's nothing unconditional about it, then it's all conditions.