{"id":4858,"date":"2016-05-13T01:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2016-05-13T01:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:47:46","slug":"kabir-singh-review-arjun-reddy-remake-shahid-kapoor-sandeep-reddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4858","title":{"rendered":"Kabir Singh Review: In the Arjun Reddy Remake, Rage is a Man\u2019s Birthright and Violence His Badge of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>f the existence \u2013 and the possible blockbuster status \u2013 of Sandeep Reddy Vanga\u2019s <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">glossier Hindi remake of <i>Arjun Reddy <\/i>proves anything, it\u2019s that Indian filmmakers have turned not understanding women into a legitimate movie genre. At the risk of underestimating the contribution of other directors, I suspect that this very in-demand genre has reached its zenith in Venga\u2019s fetishisation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/womens-day-fragile-masculinity\/\">hyper-masculinity<\/a>. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early on, there\u2019s a scene in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where Preeti (Kiara Advani), the first-year medical student who catches the fancy of the eponymous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/the-year-of-me-too-industry-bollywood-hero\/\">hero<\/a> (an unconvincing Shahid Kapoor) is molested on Holi. Six men from a rival football team that Kabir beats up during an earlier match turn up at her hostel and rub colour on her to exact revenge on him. The incident doesn\u2019t play out on screen, but it doesn\u2019t have to: Just ask any woman you know and they\u2019ll narrate the horrors of a similar account of violation. In the film, the minute Kabir learns about the incident, he orders Preeti to take a bath, takes her to face her abuser, and mercilessly beats him up in front of a crowd. He then, tells the guy to imagine a scenario where someone entered his house and forcibly touched his mother. What follows is even bizarre: In between lighting a cigarette for him, Kabir gets him to promise that he will never touch her again. Not because men should familiarise themselves with consent or respect the agency of women, but because Preeti is \u201chis girl\u201d. Preeti remains a silent spectator in the background as this inexplicable ego match unfolds, until she starts crying, moved by Arjun\u2019s admission of love. They seal it with a hug, a move that is undercut by a romantic background score. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In essence, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exploits molestation \u2013 a 2014 UNICEF survey <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/42-of-Indian-girls-are-sexually-abused-before-19-Unicef\/articleshow\/42306348.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">estimates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that 42 per cent of girls in the country have been sexually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/father-sexually-abused-child-hate\/\">abused<\/a> \u2013 to craft a grand romantic gesture that serves the hero. In this sequence, the focus is never on Preeti, whose body registered the violation but is perennially on Kabir, the man whom the camera&#8217;s gaze exalts for loving a woman so much that he can go to any lengths to protect her. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the film keeps marvelling at the intensity of Kabir\u2019s feelings (even when it frequently manifests in abuse), it reduces the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/amazon-prime-mirzapur-lynching-women-violence-masochism\/\">violence<\/a> survived by the woman to an afterthought. This directorial decision<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> takes an alarming turn in another scene that occurs on the road outside Preeti\u2019s house. In a fit of rage, Kabir transforms into a manic-obsessive abuser who threatens to hit Preeti\u2019s sister, slaps Preeti, infantilises her concerns (\u201cPeople only know you because of me,\u201d he reminds her), and blackmails her to follow his orders, all under the guise of love. For Vanga and <em>Kabir Singh<\/em>, Preeti&#8217;s tears or her trauma remain irrelevant. What matters is how much Kabir is fighting for their love. This devaluation of her personhood to essentially bestow a character certificate to the film\u2019s hero, isn\u2019t just triggering, but more importantly, dehumanising. <em>Kabir Singh&#8217;s<\/em> unabashed celebration of machismo depends entirely on the perverse pleasure derived from female suffering.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">For it is foremost, it fails to distinguish abuse when it comes cloaked in romance.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the very beginning<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an unimaginative scene-by-scene recreation of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arjun Reddy. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he director doesn\u2019t adapt the storyline to a different setting but just regurgitates it.\u00a0At this point, it isn\u2019t entirely shocking that the film glorifies Kabir\u2019s toxicity \u2013 a hybrid of male entitlement, saviour and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/aligarh-murder-case-rape-communal-kathua-victim\/\">victim<\/a> complex \u2013 that comes shrouded in a layer of impunity. Yet, what continues being suffocating is watching a &#8220;love-story&#8221; play out on screen, where Preeti is so transfixed under Kabir&#8217;s spell that she continues to tolerate his transgressions, justifying physical violence even, as a marker of passionate romance. Like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arjun Reddy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then, isn\u2019t really a story about a man destroying himself, but is actually about a man destroying a woman so that he can be the poster boy for aspirational self-destructiveness. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At its core, the three-hour-long film remains a retelling of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devdas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, except in Vanga\u2019s version, the hero\u2019s self-destructiveness comes with no accompanying consequences; instead it is endorsed as the most appropriate fallout of heartbreak. In India, men like Kabir Singh, who grow up believing that they are entitled to have their way in life and with women, aren\u2019t a figment of anyone\u2019s imagination; they are the norm. It\u2019s impossible then, to look at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> either in isolation or as just a messy but harmless tale of a man whose suffering makes him temporarily surrender to his worst impulses. For it is foremost, a portrait of the difficulty of distinguishing abuse when it comes cloaked in romance. Kabir doesn\u2019t as much love Preeti as he likes the idea of owning her (When he drops her back to college after having sex with her, he orders her to adjust her dupatta. The implication is clear: Her honour is now linked with him). On the other hand, the movie doesn\u2019t exactly allow Preeti to fall in love with him because it demands her to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/bdsm-fifty-shades-grey-marriage-relationships-sex-toys-furry-handcuffs-leather-outfits\/\">submissive<\/a> and adjust to his harmful misbehaviour. Their \u201crelationship\u201d is built on the tenets of abuse of power.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s fascinating and perhaps revealing that despite the plentiful criticisms that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arjun Reddy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> amassed over the last two years, Vanga steers clear of revising any of it: The Hindi remake still opens with that horrifying sequence where Kabir threatening a woman to have sex with him at knife-point, is mined for laughs. The maximum that the director budges from his original worldview is in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/introverts-extroverts-school-classroom\/\">classroom<\/a> scene where Kabir brokers a friendship between Preeti and another classmate. In the Telugu version, he tells Preeti to become friends with that girl because \u201cfat chicks are like teddy bears\u201d. In the scene that occurs in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vanga\u2019s sensitivity is limited to switching the words \u201cfat\u201d with \u201chealthy\u201d. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not like this modification makes the sequence or the mentality behind it \u2013 judging the worth of a woman based on her appearance \u2013 any less insulting. If he wanted to, Vanga could have easily done away with this brief scene; it hardly alters the course of events in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the fact that he chooses to retain it as comic relief betrays his intentions and encapsulates the danger of the Hindi remake: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exists to give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/india-good-boys-parents-girls\/\">Indian<\/a> men a vocabulary, a reference point to justify misbehaviour and violence against women.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Unlike what Kapoor and Vanga will you have believe, Kabir Singh isn\u2019t just a complex character with shades of grey.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The central takeaway of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is invariably,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the exclusive privilege of male rage: Kabir doesn\u2019t think twice before raising his hand on either his brother, girlfriend, a nurse, or his maid and is afforded screentime to perform his anger. His unreasonable anger is squared off against a litany of his achievements: He\u2019s a college topper. Does it matter if he performs his surgeries drunk if he is brilliant and hasn&#8217;t killed a patient? Isn\u2019t the intensity of his love \u2013 evidenced by nine months worth of pining that include growing a beard, throwing tantrums, treating people like they&#8217;re his property, and abusing alcohol and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/true-crime\/goa-drug-dealers-foreign-expats\/\">drugs<\/a> \u2013 more important than the occasional instances where he acts out? <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabir Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> undeniably voices what Indian men have been trying to normalise since time immemorial: That anger is a man\u2019s birthright. That rage is necessary for a man to exert his dominance over a woman. It exists to reinforce the idea that fury is like second nature for men and that the world needs to just accept it.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet unlike what Kapoor and Vanga will you have believe, Kabir isn\u2019t just another complex character with shades of grey. The film sees to it that he becomes an ideology of male superiority that casts Indian men as both heroes and victims whose flaws need to be tolerated, not admonished. It\u2019s why Kabir can emotionally abuse Preeti and still be the one asking \u201cDo I deserve this?\u201d <em>Kabir Singh<\/em> is every \u201cfree-spirited\u201d Indian man\u2019s wet dream, disguised as a love story \u2013 a piece of irresponsible, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/technology\/could-censorship-spell-the-end-of-netflix-and-chill\/\">offensive<\/a> filmmaking that reveals just how harmful men can be to themselves and to the woman in their lives and still refuse to apologise for it.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disguised as a love story, Sandeep Reddy Vanga\u2019s Kabir Singh justifies what Indian men have been trying to normalise since time immemorial: That anger is a man\u2019s birthright. 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