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Vijay Deverakonda is like every other sexist Tollywood hero. It is the norm here

Let’s also remember that Vijay Deverakonda has said in the past that he does not believe in democracy and that dictatorship is the right way.

Two years ago, civil society was left flabbergasted when Tollywood actor Nandamuri Balakrishna, in full public view, pushed co-star Anjali during a promotional event for their movie Gangs of Godavari. He literally shoved her, and Anjali laughed it off. Balakrishna was heavily criticised, but for someone like me who’s seen his antics in public, it was not surprising. 

In fact, that kind of behaviour is expected from Telugu actors of Balakrishna’s generation, because there is sadly a culture of getting away with casual sexism. Last week, all of us got a glimpse of actor-couple Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna on Koffee with Karan. Or at least whatever they wanted us to see.

Responding to a question, Vijay said that he had asked Mandanna to ask him for marriage a 100 times before agreeing. If he was trying to say that he didn’t believe in marriage, and that he wanted to see if it was something he believed in, then I could understand that. But as........

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