As #MeToo wave ebbs, Kabir Singh is a balm for bruised male entitlement | The Indian Express

As #MeToo wave ebbs, Kabir Singh is a balm for bruised male entitlement | The Indian Express

Written by Amrita Dutta |Updated: July 13, 2019 9:01:59 am

As #MeToo wave ebbs, Kabir Singh is a balm for bruised male entitlement

Would domestic violence cease if films such as Kabir Singh or Dabangg or Tere Naam were not made? Of course not. But popular cinema is a powerful way in which a society negotiates its rights and wrongs.

This is a film which seems to say: Alpha males in true, intense, mad love never have to ask, will she mind? Is she saying yes?

If you have grown up on good, bad and awful Hindi films, you would be familiar with some basic rules of engagement. Girl meets boy. He woos, she shrinks. He sings, she stomps. He lands up at her door, follows her in college corridors, stalks her on streets with his gang of sidekicks — and finally wins her heart.