Kabir Singh (2019)Directed by Sandeep Reddy VangaThe 2017 movie "Arjun Reddy" starring Vijay Deverakonda in the title role was a huge hit and received praise, and now we have a Hindi remake, from the same writer-director.Kabir Singh (Shahid Kapoor) is a brilliant surgeon, who is angry and possessive — he falls in love with Preeti (Kiara Advani) in their college days. We are shown this in flashbacks, and at the start of the movie we're made aware that the relationship has failed and Kabir is caught in a spiral of alcohol and drug abuse. The story is not so much the highlight here, rather, it's the character and how the story is told. In my sketch and review of the original, I said that drama is not the genre of movie that I like typically, but I liked "Arjun Reddy" and thought it was a well made and well acted movie. This is a scene for scene remake and I liked it as well. A film like this is made or broken by its lead actor's performance, and I thought Shahid did a great job here.I've been seeing some hate dished at the movie because of its portrayal of the lead character and of glorifying toxic masculinity. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion — mine is that a movie should be judged on its filmmaking merits (all of which are good here), and not on its subject matter. Filmmakers should have the freedom to write and portray characters in the way that they want. I liked the movie and I think it's well worth watching, even at almost three hours long it kept one interested. However if I had to compare this and the original one I'd have to say I liked the original better.I drew Shahid Kapoor as Kabir from the movie, the drawing was done with @ns1pen on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#DailyMovieSketch #karthikabhiram #kabirsingh#shahidkapoor #arjunreddy#453 / 1-Jul-19
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