Why Tere Naam was not labeled as toxic and problematic? - Page 7

Originally posted by: Funtuss

Kabir singh toh actually had nothing objectionable at all. I really dont understand why it is getting so much hate.

Originally posted by: sharaban

Salman left you in splits??? 🤔

Woh Kiyun?? 🤔

Salman aced the role and acted brilliantly, to be fair with him.

The film was not toxic but his character in the first half.

I probably found his acting funny because I had seen way too many memes on this movie and the scene of Salman crying. I kept remembering those memes. It's tough to take your mind off that.

A movie can portray a villainous or bad tempered arrogant men on screen but you have to look at how the director portrayed it or what your takeaway of it is. Does it inspire you? Does it want to imitate the bad protagonist? Do you find nothing objectionable with the way they acted. If there were glorification, you wouldn't even recognise that Radhe was not the traditional hero in the beginning and a bad person, like how Animal fans refuse to admit to the Alpha toxicity of the film and Ranvijay. Find any of them and they'll give you reasons as to how Rannvijay is not toxic (why wouldn't they as the director himself shares this viewpoint). The fact that we are admitting that Radhe was toxic is a good thing here. Objectionable personalities portrayed is not the problem, but glorification is.

Who even watched the shitty Tere naam? Pukes

I don’t understand those who didn’t see it posting in this topic. It’s like me posting in some topic saying who even watched xyz 🤬

Times change, people change, and society learns and evolves. But there are cycles in which some parts of society seemingly unlearn and devolve.

Why there isn't as much discourse about Tere Naam as much as other 90s cinema? Tere Naam was a flash in the pan. IMHO, it doesn't have the long-lasting cultural relevancy that some other films have. When a film has long-term cultural relevancy, it becomes more imperative to call out it's flaws.

That being said, it was problematic AF.

Originally posted by: Blueeeee

Disabilty is not a karmic retribution for bad deeds, gosh. In the same way, uska baap bimar pad gaya/mar gaya is not karmic retribution for the glorified hero of Animal.

Good lord.

Haah but uska toh koi roadside fight me hi toh sir putta tha naah??

As I said I don't remember the film exactly but at that age radhe looked like a loser to me rather than some glorified hero. He bore the brunt of his misdeeds.

Maybe I remember it incorrectly. But I certainly do not stand with these people who are trying to justify bullshit named animal because someone made something eons ago and was not bashed enough for that.

On topic- I think everyone unanimously agreed that radhe is a problematic character and the movie is toxic, no one tried to defend him again again therefore audience didn't felt the need to trash it, and looked at it from the perspective of mindless entertainment.

Originally posted by: Guddu.Pandit

Tere Naam is Toxic film, one should avoid it, I recommend watch Animal & be inspired to be like it.

And not to forget, for which this SRK fan actually made this thread, one should watch & get inspired from Darr, Anjaam.

Originally posted by: MaebyFunke

I probably found his acting funny because I had seen way too many memes on this movie and the scene of Salman crying. I kept remembering those memes. It's tough to take your mind off that.

A movie can portray a villainous or bad tempered arrogant men on screen but you have to look at how the director portrayed it or what your takeaway of it is. Does it inspire you? Does it want to imitate the bad protagonist? Do you find nothing objectionable with the way they acted. If there were glorification, you wouldn't even recognise that Radhe was not the traditional hero in the beginning and a bad person, like how Animal fans refuse to admit to the Alpha toxicity of the film and Ranvijay. Find any of them and they'll give you reasons as to how Rannvijay is not toxic (why wouldn't they as the director himself shares this viewpoint). The fact that we are admitting that Radhe was toxic is a good thing here. Objectionable personalities portrayed is not the problem, but glorification is.

Good post

Thsbks for the clarifications

Originally posted by: Beautyful_Mess

Hold on. This member is an SRK fan?? 😬😳

Yes, a regular SRK fan who will go to any extent to defend Khan Saab.

She got frustrated by my post here & then made this thread to get Tere Naam bashed

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/164757089

Originally posted by: Romanoger

Haah but uska toh koi roadside fight me hi toh sir putta tha naah??

As I said I don't remember the film exactly but at that age radhe looked like a loser to me rather than some glorified hero. He bore the brunt of his misdeeds.

Maybe I remember it incorrectly. But I certainly do not stand with these people who are trying to justify bullshit named animal because someone made something eons ago and was not bashed enough for that.

On topic- I think everyone unanimously agreed that radhe is a problematic character and the movie is toxic, no one tried to defend him again again therefore audience didn't felt the need to trash it, and looked at it from the perspective of mindless entertainment.

Roadside fight mein phatta ho ya bathroom mein pair phisal ke. It is just a cause of a health condition. It is not punishment for stalking, harassing, beating or any other bad deed. People pull this "pichle janam mein kya bure karm kiye honge jo (humare bacche ke saath) aisa hua" to alienate and dehumanise disabled, sick people all the time. I have heard someone say Stephen Hawking got ALS because God punished him for being an atheist. God doesn't punish people with disablity. That line of thought is always ableist even when unintentional.

On this very forum someone agued how Ranbir's character in Animal wasn't glorified because the father he craved attention from died or got terminally sick or something. As if God is sitting above seeing this pos being sexually violent to women and decides to make another person suffer as some form of justice.

I know you didn't mean anything by it but it's just normalised ableism. Makes healthcare access that much more difficult.

On the other hand, Tere Naam was v v popular because songs, bhoy's look was widespread from what little I remember of it. It didn't help that the girl ends up loving him and dying for him.