Kabir Singh director Sandeep Reddy Vanga has stoked the flames of controversy over his film by defending its misogynistic male lead in a recent interview with journalist and film critic Anupama Chopra. Mr Vanga was responding to critics panning his film as a glorification of toxic masculinity, saying: "When you are deeply in love and deeply connected with a woman, and vice versa, there's a lot of honesty in it.