“Men like Kabir Singh do exist,” says Shahid Kapoor

Shahid Kapoor recently spoke on his character Kabir Singh and said he wouldn’t have accepted a guy like him.

Audiences had polarizing opinions when Kabir Singh, the film by Sandeep Reddy Vanga released in 2019. The director was criticized for perpetuating toxic masculinity; still the film became one of the biggest hits that year, earning a massive box office collection of over ₹250 crore. Shahid Kapoor, who played the lead character of Kabir in the film, recently in an interview spoke about the same.

Shahid Kapoor opened up on the debate of playing a character like Kabir Singh.

In an interview with Faye D’Souzarecently, Shahid Kapoor opened up on the debate of playing a character like that and said that even though he would not “accept” a lot of things he did in the film, characters like him do exist in real life. He said, “It is not really about who I am. It is about who we all can be. Who we all choose to be. What we all want to be and your learning has to be from that and you cannot make films that are never addressing what is happening in life.”

“A lot of things that Kabir did was unacceptable.”

Speaking more to Faye on the same, Shahid said, “I don’t think a lot of things that Kabir did was acceptable at all. I would not accept a guy like that. But do guys like that exist? Do girls like that fall in love with guys like that? Yes they do! So why can’t we make a movie about it? You walk away, you decide what you like what you don’t like. That’s really up to you, as an audience.”

Shahid Kapoor will be next seen in Deva, which will release in theatres on January 31, 2025.