Shahid Questions Ranbir's film Sanju; "He Slept with 300 Girls, No One Questioned Him..."

Shahid Kapoor is currently riding high on success. His recently released film, Kabir Singh directed by ace director Sandeep Reddy Vanga has been making a lot of noise. Along with crashing the box office numbers and receiving rave reviews for his stellar performance, Shahid character, Kabir Singh has also been criticized for encouraging toxic masculinity.

It's been over a month now since the film hit the silver screens but the young crowd is still watching it again and again. As per the recent box office collections, the film has managed to become the biggest blockbuster of 2019. However, despite all the good words, Kabir Singh also landed itself in various controversies.

Expressing his happiness on the success of the film, while talking to Hindustan Times, Shahid said that he is still sinking in the feeling and that it's a surreal to him that the film is running housefull even after five weeks of release. He also spoke about the criticism coming his way.

During the interview, when Shahid was questioned about playing the flawed character of Kabir Singh, he shared that he has never been afraid of playing dark characters like Kabir or Tommy Singh (Udta Punjab), since in real life he can never be those guys. He also tried to explain the reason his film worked and that is because according to him the films are now being viewed by the audience for what they are.

Further, to clear his stance, he cited an example from Ranbir Kapoor's film Sanju and shared that just because a character is flawed doesn't mean that one didn’t enjoy the film.

“There have been films in the recent past which had characters exhibiting similar traits but then no one really picked on them. To be candid, Sanju had a scene where the guy sitting in front of his wife and saying he has slept with 300 women. No one picked on it the way they went after Kabir Singh. And this is not to say that I didn’t enjoy Sanju. I thoroughly did, because I didn’t watch it to see how people should be, I watched it to see how the character’s life is. The fact that people loved Kabir Singh has just told me that people watch a film for what it is.” 

Directed by Sandeep Vanga who also directed Arjun Reddy starring Vijay Deverakonda. Kabir Singh starred Kiara Advani as the lead actress opposite Shahid Kapoor. Along with the story and performances, the film’s music too has been loved and it remains to be one of the biggest successes of 2019.