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Kabir Singh (2019)

Kabir Singh poster
Original title
कबीर सिंह
Directed by
Sandeep Vanga
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 53m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 186 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A brilliant surgeon named Kabir Singh becomes uncontrollably self-destructive and turns to alcohol and violence when his girlfriend is forced to marry another man. The film follows his downward spiral as he struggles with obsession and heartbreak.

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What happens

Kabir Singh is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film co-written, co-edited and directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga in his Hindi cinema debut, and jointly produced by Bhushan Kumar and Krishan Kumar under T-Series Films and Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde under Cine1 Studios. A remake of Vanga's own Telugu film Arjun Reddy (2017), it stars Shahid Kapoor as the titular protagonist, a surgeon, who spirals into self-destruction when his girlfriend, played by Kiara Advani, is forced to marry someone else. Principal photography for Kabir Singh began in October 2018 and ended in March 2019. The film was theatrically released on 21 June 2019 and received mixed reviews. Criticism was directed at the film for its themes of self destruction and substance abuse, while Kapoor's performance and the soundtrack received praise. Grossing over ₹379 crore, it became the second highest-grossing Hindi film of 2019, and Kapoor's highest grossing solo-lead release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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