Darlings: #BoycottAliaBhatt Trends On Twitter, Here's Why We Think It Makes No Sense

The #BoycottAliaBhatt trend on Twitter is baseless because the victim in the film is a woman, not a man. 

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Ahead of the release of Darlings on Netflix on August 5, #BoycottAliaBhatt has started trending on Twitter. People are comparing her character in the film to Amber Heard and saying it promotes domestic violence against men.

#BoycottAliaBhatt Trend On Twitter

A tweet from the Save Indian Family Foundation shared a poster of the film and wrote that the thousands of male victims of domestic violence were traumatised after watching the trailer of Darlings.

It photoshopped the poster and had ‘Indian Amber Heard’ on Bhatt’s face while Vijay Varma’s character was referred to as Johnny Depp.

Another user shared a First Post article where the headline read, “How Darlings normalises domestic violence and makes a mockery out of it.”

While the subject of that article can be a topic of debate, the user took it to understand that the movie is about celebrating domestic violence against men.

A page titled MenToo tweeted that Alia Bhatt produced Darlings on the OTT only to promote domestic violence against men.

Here Is Why #BoycottAliaBhatt Is Baseless

Alia Bhatt Portrays The Victim

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Image Courtesy: Instagram/aliaabhatt

If anyone has watched the complete trailer, they would know that Bhatt is playing the role of a victim of domestic violence at her husband’s hands. Hamza Shaikh, played by Vijay Varma, is clearly shown to have been abusive towards his wife Badrunissa Shaikh, played by Bhatt.

The people protesting seemed to have conveniently skipped the part where Badrunissa says that she wanted to take revenge on her husband for the way he had treated her in the past.

The trailer also mentioned, “Aurton ka apmaan… Sehat ke liye haanikaarak hai (disrespecting women is injurious to health).

While the mode of revenge is debatable (and illegal), the film certainly does not seem to promote domestic violence against men. It is merely a dark comedy that shows an abused woman taking things into her own hands to finally protect herself.

55,475 Men In NFHS 5 Justified Beating Their Wives

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If anyone has read the National Family Health Survey 2019-2021 report, it mentioned how 55,475 of the total surveyed men justified beating their wives.

Among several reasons, the most prominent ones were - suspecting unfaithfulness, refusing intercourse, disrespecting in-laws, neglecting household chores, arguing with husband, going out without telling husband, and not cooking tasty food.

Thousands of men reported basing their claims of domestic violence on these grounds. Not only that, but the survey also interviewed women who agreed to many of these terms as legit reasons for suffering abuse at the hands of their husbands.

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Amber Heard And Johnny Depp Case Is Not The Yardstick

For most men, and sadly for many women as well, the takeaway from the Heard vs Depp trial was that Johnny Depp was innocent, and that is why he won the case.

On the contrary, the case was merely a defamation suit in which both the parties were held accountable. While Heard was ordered to pay more than Depp, nowhere did the final decision declare the Pirates Of The Caribbean actor “not guilty” of abuse.

From shreds of evidence presented during the hearing, both parties appeared to have been abusive in their relationship, and none of them technically won the trial. It was a civil suit and not a criminal one, which could have had a different outcome. We must not forget that a UK court declared Depp a ‘wife beater’.

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Since the trial, men have used Heard’s name to downgrade any woman’s allegations against her husband. Calling Alia Bhatt ‘Amber Heard’, men have found the shortest route to deliver a decision that the woman is the liar. Even before she can fight for a fair trial, this section of society would declare her the culprit.

No one should support or promote domestic violence, irrespective of gender. While the violence in the film is debatable(as it is in any violent film), we do not think that any of it calls for #BoycottAliaBhatt to trend.

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