After Laal Singh Chaddha and Raksha Bandhan the hashtag of #BoycottAliaBhatt began trending on Twitter just one day before the movie was made available on the OTT platform.
Alia Bhatt is currently busy with her next Netflix movie Darlings. In this series she will be workling with Shefali Shah, Vijay Varma, and Roshan Mathew. Alia Bhatt plays Badrunissa Shaikh, a victim of domestic abuse, in the movie.
Many people think that the actress’ most recent work is a plot that supports domestic violence against men. In the movie Darlings, Vijay Varma plays Hamza Shaikh, Badru’s husband, who beats her until she decides to exact revenge by kidnapping and torturing him in the home where they both reside.
The trailer shows Alia’s character beating her husband with a pan, throwing water on his face, thrusting his face inside a tank full of water, thrashing him left right and centre, and making constant plans to not kill him but treat him ‘exactly how he treated her.’
In a short clip, we see Hamza tied to a chair as Badrunissa beats him up and uses injections to make him go unconscious – to avenge all the abuse and torture she suffered at his hands in their marriage.
Here’s what the Twitterati are saying about reverse sexism being a thing in films these days.
Believe all victims, regardless of gender. #BanDarlings #boycottAliaBhatt pic.twitter.com/fct9D4rKoA
— iAtulp (@IM_atulp) August 3, 2022
Indian Men are traumatised after watching the Darlings Trailer.
— Catachi (@itachi_senpai1) August 3, 2022
An actress and producer with such Misandry will only misuse the revenue generated to create more such movies encouraging Husband Murd3r.#BoycottDarlings #BoycottBrahmastra
Basically :#BoycottAliaBhatt
Dear @KirenRijiju,@aliaa08 has a better solution to tackle DV on Women which she proposes in #Darlings.
— Catachi (@itachi_senpai1) August 3, 2022
Tackle DV on Women by DV on Men.
Kindly scrap PWDVA 2005 & shut down @MLJ_GoI so that men & women can solve their issues by trying to murd3r each other.#BoycottAliaBhatt pic.twitter.com/zJ1Q86b9dF
Guys be careful when you watch the movie Darlings with your family or girlfriend!
— Vasu (@IsManAnATM) August 3, 2022
As you might be the best partner for your wife/ girlfriend,
But movies like Darlings may end up teaching your female partner to secretively physically abuse you in future!#boycottAliaBhatt pic.twitter.com/iFjceQit4c
#BoycottAliaBhatt has started trending in India.
— Prasad Y (@PrasadY_MRA) August 3, 2022
She is #AmberHeard of India. She made a movie to promote domestic violence against Indian men.#BanNetflix@realsiff pic.twitter.com/lC6xmEG75n