Following the success of Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha,’ netizens are now ‘boycotting’ Alia Bhatt for ‘promoting’ domestic violence against men in her upcoming film ‘Darlings.’ The film will be available on Netflix on August 5th. Bhatt not only plays the protagonist, but she also makes her directorial debut. The film was co-produced by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment. Vijay Verma, Shefali Shah, and Roshan Matthew also appear in the film.
The online outrage follows scenes in the film in which Bhatt’s character is seen torturing her on-screen husband Vijay Varma.
“Everyone should #BoycottAliaBhatt for making a misandrist movie like Darlings. For bollywood, domestic violence on men is a matter of joke. Pathetic,” wrote a Twitter user.
Another user mentioned how Patriarchy is coming back like a “cancer and metastasizing in court judgements.” The person wrote “Meanwhile Alia Bhatt produces and acts in #Darlings endorsing Assault on Domestic Violence on Husbands while the nation stays mum. This whole Victimhood is a charade.”
This comes just a day after the team of Alia Bhatt’s ‘Darlings’ released the film’s song La Ilaaj. During the event, composer Vishal Bhardwaj revealed that the film’s co-producer, Shah Rukh Khan, was so taken with the song that he sang it to the composer over the phone. “Shah Rukh called me one night around 12-12.30 a.m.,” he explained. On the phone, he began singing the song. He performed the entire song. Then he began to explain what it meant… “It would have been more fun if the song had been for me,” he said.