Kabir singh is a movie about a medical student who falls in love with a girl from the same college. Movie has portrayed kabir singh as an excellent student achieving top rank and athletically good at football sport. But the movie director choose to portray kabir’s character as negative or toxic. Kabir is shown as an aggressive and stubborn person with anger issues. Also, they’ve showed him as a person who doesn’t have self-control and was high on cigarettes, alcohol and drugs after his breakup. There was scene in the movie where kabir was forcing a girl on the point of a knife for his sexual desire and this scene was shown as if this is normal in our country. I think this is attempt to rape and attempt to rape is equally a criminal act as what rape is. Kabir slapped preeti just because he couldn’t control his anger. Is this not a case of domestic violence?
Through this movie a wrong message has been passed on to the youth. Since in India people follow Bollywood icons very religiously, the movie director should produce content keeping this in mind. Fans mostly try to imitate their Bollywood icon from the movie and try to do things exactly in the same way what the actor d id in the movie. Since something was done by the actor in the movie, that thing is taken as very cool and trending by the youth and they then try to include it in their daily lives or maybe they inculcate a feeling of doing it once in their lifetime.
Well, there were also good things which we can learn from kabir. He is the same kabir who is extra caring towards his girlfriend. He is the one who ask his girlfriend to set her dupatta properly before entering the college, who always took the heavy bags from her shoulder so that she could be burden free, and who didn’t wanted preeti to travel alone, for him from delhi to masoorie. He also asked preeti to go and talk to her father with the same courage that she shows when she looks at him. He might be a bad person according to his habits but by heart he is was an innocent and sincere individual and that’s the reason he realized his mistake when he was accused for performing a surgery when he was high on alcohol and spoke the truth by accepting his mistake even after knowing that he would lose his medical license for 5 years. He also gave us some lessons of being a humble and kind person by willing to accept preeti with someone else’s child and he was also willing to adopt the child and call the child his own.
Though the movie had a lot of negatives things to ponder upon, it does had small and unnoticeable kind gestures and acts by the lead role which many of us forget to notice because we are focusing on the bigger picture. I hope, where the movie is giving heat to the usage of alcohol, cigarette and drugs it does teaches all of us to speak the truth even if it is against our own self and to care deeply for the people whom we love.
There is controversy that the movie is glorifying misogyny, alcoholism, drug usage and attempting to rape a women. And there are also acts of honesty, caring, loving and kindness etc. It depends on us as an individual what we learn from this movie. But as far as children and teenage people are concerned, it might lead them to do wrongful acts. Hence the movie directors and producers should be mindful of what content they are producing and what they are conveying to the public.
But after all, we all fail to understand that this is just a movie. And movies are made for entertainment purposes only. Without all the entertainment and spice in the content, the Bollywood industry won’t survive.