Story: Kabir Singh is an official remake of the Telugu blockbuster Arjun Reddy. The film charts the journey of a short tempered doctor Kabir Singh (Shahid Kapoor), whose obsession for his girlfriend leads him on the path to self-destruction. Can he come out of the dark world that he creates for himself?
Release date: 21 June 2019(India)
Director :Sandeep Reddy Vanga
Based on : Arjun Reddy
Music Director :Armaan Malik,Sachet-Parampara,Mithoon, Harshvardhan Rameshwar,Vishal Mishra,Akhil Sachdeva
Release date: 21 June 2019(India)
Director :Sandeep Reddy Vanga
Based on : Arjun Reddy
Music Director :Armaan Malik,Sachet-Parampara,Mithoon, Harshvardhan Rameshwar,Vishal Mishra,Akhil Sachdeva
Review: Meet Kabir Singh – the kind of boyfriend, who is aggressive, obsessive and would go to any extreme for his girl. He is all in or nothing at all. As a senior and a topper in one of Delhi’s most reputed medical institutes, he wields immense power. Thanks to his lethal anger issues, there are few who would want to mess with him. By his own admission, he becomes a rebel with a cause as soon as he sees his junior in college Preeti (Kiara Advani). For him, it is love at first sight. But this is far from a meet cute romance, with mush gush and the regular romantic toppings. It immediately gives Kabir’s unsettled and self-destructive streak a reason to manifest. Thus, begins the real journey of his character into the deep dark abyss of chasing the love of his life. Shahid’s performance lets the character get away with a lot of vices like womanizing, drug addiction, alcoholism and brash male toxicity. For some, his actions and recklessness might seem problematic, but that is evidently his character sketch, and Shahid plays it with brutal honesty. Shahid Kapoor completely surrenders himself to the extremism of Kabir Singh. The powerhouse performer plays each and every shade of Kabir with such passion and perfection that his conviction makes you root for him, even when he is far stretched from being the picture perfect lover boy.It is only because of Shahid’s strong performance that many of his characters’ excesses seem justified. His character is deeply misogynistic, abusive, reeks of misplaced sense of male entitlement - exactly the kind of man that our society reeling under patriarchy and sexist stereotypes need to call out. His psyche and behaviour are dominated by his irrepressible anger and desperate need to be in charge of the women he is obsessively in love with.
In terms of screen space, no one comes close to the leading man. For most part, film’s leading lady Kiara remains demure and is left to use silence as her only tool for performance. With such limited scope, she never really gets a chance to shine. Shahid’s trusted friend Shiva (Soham Majumdar), on the other hand, gets sample opportunity to show solid support even when his friend is way out of line.
The film’s conflicts in the second half start becoming repetitive. The pace of the film becomes an issue with a runtime that is undeniably long. Thankfully, the realism and build up to Kabir’s deterioration is well executed and so is the practical support that he gets from his family. Writer-director Sandeep Vanga Reddy, who also helmed the Telugu original, makes his hero vulnerable but not weak enough to feel sorry for.
The remake stays mostly true to the original. However, the original had better chemistry between the lead actors, hence the love story seemed more effective. Also, Kabir Singh is a tad more humane than Arjun Reddy while being equally intense. He always shows up looking dapper, even in the most dire conditions. So it isn’t a surprise that the most pretty girls, including a heroine Jia (Nikita Dutta), falls for his unabashed charm. Film’s music compliments the narrative with its soulful renditions in the background.
While 'Kabir Singh' is a welcome change from stereotypical love stories, this kind of love affair needs some getting used to. If you can generally accept the fact that human beings can be flawed (sometimes deeply flawed), you will be able to stomach this rebellious story of love with extreme madness, often lacking rationale and reason. Through his protagonist, Sandeep bets all his cards on his leading man, making sure you either love him or hate him, but you can’t ignore him.
MUSIC:
1. Tujhe kitna Chahein Aur
Singer: Jubin Nautiyal
Music: Mithoon
Lyricst: Mithoon
2. Pehla Pyarr
Singer: Armaan Malik
Music: Vishal Mishra
Music: Vishal Mishra
Lyricst: Irshad Kamil
3. Yeh Aaina
Singer: Shreya Ghoshal
Music: Armaan Malik
Lyricst: Irshad Kamil
4. Tera Ban Jauga
Singer: Akhil Sachdeva, Tulsi Kumar
Music: Akhil Sachdeva
Lyricst: Kumar
5. Kaise Hua
Singer: Vishal Mishra
Music: Vishal Mishra
Lyricst: Manoj Muntashir
6. Mere Sohneya
Singer: Sachet Tandon, Parampara Thakur
Music: Sachet- Parampara
Lyricst: Irshad Kamil
7. Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lge
Singer: Arijit Singh
Music: Mithoon
Lyricst: Mithoon
8. Bekhyali
Singer: Sachet Tandon
Music: Sachet- Parampara
Lyricst: Irshad Kamil
IMDb's Rating: 7.9/10
Kabir Singh is creating history at the box office. in just 13 days ,the film crossed rupees 200 crore benchmark,making shahid kapoor a newest member of the 200 crore club.The film has earned Rs 213.20 crore so far.it has crossed the life time collection of Salman khan's BHARAT.
SOME OF THE USER REVIEWS ARE :
OK, Kabir Singh is not your picture perfect protagonist and neither the director tried to show him in that light.
It's about a guy who's not perfect, has anger issues but has fallen in love and doesn't want to move on after he's hurt. For him, she is everything.
It's not your KJO type movie wherein the protagonist is a hero who won't do a bad thing, his families are happy with him, his neighbors are happy and the entire college or city is happy with him.
It's a story about a flawed person which is totally normal in real life. Don't we have such friends or colleagues or people around us who we may not like but they are like that? So, if you feel it's patriarchal and misogynistic, it is but it is that story about that man! Period.
Through his perspective, we realized he was pure and didn't believe in casteism that comes in the way of love. Have we not come across that? Do we not become partial to other castes? My own marriage had almost become a victim of casteism but we held our own and now happily married for many years.
We saw a full circle of Kabir who was a sensitive child in love with a doll but was also possessive. We saw how he became protective for a new girl in college and she being a docile, submissive girl also fell in love with him. She loved him. It's not like he forced himself on her.
He got hurt, did wrong things but still was a man of morals and came out clean when needed. He acknowledged himself that's the only thing he liked about himself.
His coming of age while talking to his father when the latter was down in his life, shows his character development wonderfully written by Vanga. I'm his fan now.
Lots of hints are thrown out in open here's a guy with so many issues is the topper of his college, did what the society wanted of him which is to be topper, study well, be a doctor but then he didn't give a damn about what he wanted to do in his personal life and what others thought of him.
Other things he did when he did while womanizing he was broken and hurt. People when hurt deal with their issues differently. While some throw their phones on the floor in anger, others may just tell themselves to get up and go. Was he right? It's about his story and life, not ours.
Need to view that story from that perspective and feel his pain and disagree where you didn't like it. But you can't say it's glorifying his wrong deeds.
I loved this new type of love story. The team worked hard and I loved all the characters in the film especially his friend Shiva - a true real raw friendship.
Kiara was beautiful and could be the next big sensation as Disha did after MS Dhoni.
Shahid can finally be sure his father is proud of his work. Never felt it was him and not Kabir for a second.
Request to the viewers to not be judgemental and watch it for what it is. Mind you, you'd not be disappointed. Peace!
It's about a guy who's not perfect, has anger issues but has fallen in love and doesn't want to move on after he's hurt. For him, she is everything.
It's not your KJO type movie wherein the protagonist is a hero who won't do a bad thing, his families are happy with him, his neighbors are happy and the entire college or city is happy with him.
It's a story about a flawed person which is totally normal in real life. Don't we have such friends or colleagues or people around us who we may not like but they are like that? So, if you feel it's patriarchal and misogynistic, it is but it is that story about that man! Period.
Through his perspective, we realized he was pure and didn't believe in casteism that comes in the way of love. Have we not come across that? Do we not become partial to other castes? My own marriage had almost become a victim of casteism but we held our own and now happily married for many years.
We saw a full circle of Kabir who was a sensitive child in love with a doll but was also possessive. We saw how he became protective for a new girl in college and she being a docile, submissive girl also fell in love with him. She loved him. It's not like he forced himself on her.
He got hurt, did wrong things but still was a man of morals and came out clean when needed. He acknowledged himself that's the only thing he liked about himself.
His coming of age while talking to his father when the latter was down in his life, shows his character development wonderfully written by Vanga. I'm his fan now.
Lots of hints are thrown out in open here's a guy with so many issues is the topper of his college, did what the society wanted of him which is to be topper, study well, be a doctor but then he didn't give a damn about what he wanted to do in his personal life and what others thought of him.
Other things he did when he did while womanizing he was broken and hurt. People when hurt deal with their issues differently. While some throw their phones on the floor in anger, others may just tell themselves to get up and go. Was he right? It's about his story and life, not ours.
Need to view that story from that perspective and feel his pain and disagree where you didn't like it. But you can't say it's glorifying his wrong deeds.
I loved this new type of love story. The team worked hard and I loved all the characters in the film especially his friend Shiva - a true real raw friendship.
Kiara was beautiful and could be the next big sensation as Disha did after MS Dhoni.
Shahid can finally be sure his father is proud of his work. Never felt it was him and not Kabir for a second.
Request to the viewers to not be judgemental and watch it for what it is. Mind you, you'd not be disappointed. Peace!
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