‘Kabir Singh’ | Samantha Akkineni hits back at ‘double standards’ accusation after slamming director Sandeep Reddy Vanga's controversial comment

Just like audiences have been unfazed with criticism for ‘Kabir Singh’, having helped flick set records at box office, Sandeep Reddy Vanga is unaffected by it. director recently justified 'toxic masculinity’ in Shahid Kapoor-Kiara Advani starrer by stating that re was love if one didn’t have liberty to slap ir lover. While filmmaker got flak from netizens, even celebrities voiced ir opposition to his defence. One of m was Samantha Akkineni, who termed Vanga’s quote as ‘deeply disturbing’. However, as netizens accused her of ‘double standards’ by digging up her praise for ‘Arjun Reddy’, movie on which ‘Kabir Singh’ is based on, actress hit back that liking film and condemning comments were two different things. 

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In a recent interview with a portal, Vanga had termed criticism for film as ‘pseudo’ and ‘bizarre’. He n said that if lovers don’t have liberty to slap each or, re was emotion of love. 

Apart from Twitteratti, many celebrities like Sona Mohapatra,  Gulshan Devaiah and Atul Kasbekar called him out for his comments. 

Samantha shared a screenshot of his quote on Instagram stories and termed it ‘deeply disturbing.’ 

Later, a Twitter account dug up her 2017 tweet praising ‘Arjun Reddy’ with words like ‘original’ and ‘outstanding’ and posting it alongside her latest post, calling it ‘double standards.’ 

‘Eega’ star was quick to point out, “Liking film .. and disagreeing with a comment are two different things . I loved story of one ‘Arjun Reddy’ .. t  generalisation that love means having liberty of slapping people around.”" 

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Neverless, ‘Kabir Singh’ is on its way to become highest-grossing film of this year, earning Rs 225 crore already.