Shraddha Walker and Aftab Ameen Poonawalla love story and gruesome murder case shocks India; here is a look at 5 films on toxic abusive relationships.

Glorifying man child characters and behaviours is also a gift wrapped and given to us. We all loved these stereotypical adult men who did not act in the calm, serious, or sensible way that you would expect from someone his age, which appears to be quite problematic in movies about growing up as adults.

When you take a scene out of the film and blow it out of proportion then you just talk about the scene, you have not seen the film in totality: Kiara Advani on Kabir Singh slap scene.

I am not comfortable imagining a scenario where Kabir Singh shapes young, impressionable minds into expecting girls to be submissive to them through their misogynist behavior, claiming ownership and disregarding consent, much like Kabir did.

Tadap trailer shows the film might just be another exhibition of violence parading as love. Is there a chance it will attempt to break the mould of its genre?

There is so much we want the Hindi films to do differently in 2020, or in a lot of cases, chuck away altogether.

Parvathy has underlined the exact problem that most of us had with the film, and why we couldn’t just let it got. Even when labelled as entertainment, cinema needs to be responsible about the message it is sending across to the audience.

Kabir Singh director Arjun Reddy Vanga says if you don’t have the liberty to slap each other in a relationship, it’s not true love. Mr Vanga makes not being in love sound so appealing.

The movie Kabir Singh is a celebration of toxic masculinity and an epitome of an abusive relationship. But look around you, you will find many Preetis in a relationship with the Kabirs of the world, who are abused, and silenced even battered yet they keep mum and keep going back to the same man.

As we criticise Kabir Singh For romanticisation of misogyny, let us also address how films like these share a deep bond with the reality of Indian society.