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'It was not about one slap': Kiara Advani on 'Kabir Singh' controversy co-starring Shahid Kapoor

Kiara Advani appeared in Neha Dhupia's chat show No Filter Neha and spoke at length about her and Shahid Kapoor's hit film Kabir Singh and the controversies that surround it to this day.

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Kiara Advani is gearing up for the release of her next film Laxmmi Bomb opposite Akshay Kumar, with whom she featured in Good Newwz as well.

Recently the actor appeared in Neha Dhupia's chat show No Filter Neha and spoke at length about her and Shahid Kapoor's hit film Kabir Singh and the controversies that surround it to this day. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Speaking about her character Preeti, Kiara said, "I feel like and I realize this only because of Kabir Singh that there are certain characters, today what people know me, even after a certain body of work, they can't get over a certain character that you've played. They feel like this is you. It becomes larger than life. That's what happened with Preeti. I was happy when Guilty came out and Good Newwz came out and people were like okay, wow, she's a versatile actress and you know I've got all the critical acclaim for."

Speaking further about how nervous she was when Kabir Singh first came out, Kiara said, "But, with Kabir, I think, it was, I was very nervous before the film release because I was aware that section of backlash would come because we saw it happen with the first film. So, we knew it would happen. We didn't expect the extent of it because of course with the Hindi Film Industry, it's a larger audience and the way the film reached out to people, I don't think we realize that with so much love the topic would become prime-time news as well. So, that was a bit challenging but I felt like there was also so much love that there wasn't I don't know, I hope it doesn't sound wrong of me to say that it balanced out the brick-bats that came with it."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Kiara also spoke about the controversial protagonist Shahid played and said, "You know that this is a man with anger management issues, that's the character narrative, that's what he took, but, I felt like in the second half you see such a downfall in his journey that it completely justified everything else for me. Unfortunately, some people just made the slap, the whole movie about one slap, it was not about one slap. That's not something that I stand for."

"There's a reason why till today I get so many messages about the film and I know it’s a character that is always whoever knows me will always have Preeti associated in their mind when they think of me. It’s just a, like some characters, some with actors, you always think of that character when you think of that actor so...," she said. 

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