Dear woke India, where were you before Kabir Singh?

At the outset, let’s be honest about one thing: This backlash against the Bollywood movie Kabir Singh isn’t any coming of age of Indian audiences. The 1990s and early 2000s loved obsessive men, epitomising “love” in movies like the Shahrukh Khan-starrers Darr (1993) and Anjaam (1994), and Salman Khan’s Tere Naam (2003). As recently as 2013, Dhanush was seen stalking Sonam Kapoor for years on end in Raanjhaana.