Ye Toxic toh film ka naam hai na, Indian audiences ka DNA kaise ban gaya?
Nobody has suffered more because of Toxic than a man who isn’t even in the film! Meet Sidharth Malhotra.
The man, the myth, the legend, the husband…Aaah, the husband. That explains it. According to Instagram comment sections, he’s currently sitting alone in a dimly lit room, staring out of the window while Arijit Singh’s entire discography plays in the background.
According to reality, he’s probably at the gym. Or wondering why his name is trending under a trailer he had absolutely nothing to do with.
But that’s the internet for you. Give it one movie trailer and suddenly everyone has a PhD in celebrity body language, marriage counselling, and yes divorces.
UGH!
How did we get here?
The trailer and songs of Toxic starring Yash and Kiara Advani dropped. People noticed Kiara has romantic and intimate scenes with Yash.
And within 14 business seconds, social media collectively decided that Sidharth Malhotra needed to be rescued.
“Bhai he needs to be protected at all costs.”
FROM WHAT? From his wife making money?
The comments immediately entered their “Save Private Sidharth” era.
“Justice for Sid.”
“Poor Sidharth.”
“Free my man.”
“He deserves better.”
“Imagine your wife doing this.”
“Money isn’t everything.”
“He’s definitely crying.”
Sir?
The internet has officially adopted Sidharth Malhotra
Every few years, the internet picks one celebrity and decides they’re the world’s saddest person.
This season’s winner is….Sidharth Malhotra. He’s basically become Bollywood’s Princess Diana.
Apparently, he’s:
- devastated
- betrayed
- silently suffering
- healing
- waiting for someone to save him
Meanwhile, Sidharth has posted…
…nothing.
The man hasn’t even participated in the drama, but has been forcibly cast in it.
Instagram comment sections deserve psychological evaluation
Forget the trailer! The real entertainment is underneath it.
Every comment section has become an episode of CID. Someone zooms into Sidharth’s face from a paparazzi video shot three weeks ago.
“He looks different.”
Another person notices he smiled for only 1.7 seconds.
“He looks broken.”
Someone else says Kiara liked a post 28 minutes late.
This is a plea for all those people to please get a life.
The funniest part? The rumour wasn’t even true
As if the discourse wasn’t dramatic enough, rumours started circulating that Kiara had requested the makers of Toxic to remove or reduce intimate scenes after marriage.
Entertainment pages ran with it and then… Kiara herself shut the rumours down. Proper baddie behaviour, btw.
She denied the reports. But by then, facts had already missed the train.
Rumours travel on private jets and well…facts are still waiting for confirmation on IRCTC.
Reddit had one question that broke the entire argument
Interestingly, Reddit wasn’t entirely buying the outrage. Most people pointed out something so painfully obvious that Instagram somehow skipped over it. If Kiara is wrong for doing romantic scenes after marriage…
…then why isn’t Yash being dragged?
He’s married and yes, he’s a father.
Where are the comments saying:
“Justice for Yash’s wife.”
“Free Yash’s family.”
“How could he romance another woman?”
It’s almost like the rules mysteriously apply only to actresses. Funny coincidence! Welcome to a Patriarchal society.
One Reddit user summed it up perfectly by pointing out that everyone keeps asking, “How did Sid allow this?” but nobody asks, “How did Yash’s wife allow this?”
Another simply wrote,
“People are more heartbroken than Sidharth himself.”
Honestly…that might be the most accurate comment on the internet. BECAUSE. HE. AIN’T. HEARTBROKEN
Acting is… literally acting
Somehow every few months social media rediscovers the concept that actors have to…act.
Ranbir Kapoor kisses actresses and Deepika Padukone romances co-stars. Shah Rukh Khan has spent three decades falling in love with women who aren’t Gauri Khan.
Yet somehow, every time an actress gets married, people start behaving like the film industry forgot to update its HR policy.
This isn’t even Kiara’s first rodeo
People also seem to have forgotten that Kiara Advani has faced this exact flavour of outrage before. When she promoted Satyaprem Ki Katha after getting married, people criticised her for recreating her bridal pose and starring opposite Kartik Aaryan.
She later admitted the trolling affected her. Ironically, the person who reportedly encouraged her to ignore the negativity?
Sidharth Malhotra!
The man, the myth, the legend and the green-flag husband.
The very man people are now trying to rescue. He’s probably wondering why strangers are fighting battles he never signed up for.
Poor Sidharth has become the internet’s emotional support husband
At this point, the memes are almost funnier than the discourse. Everywhere you look, someone’s editing Sidharth’s face onto sad movie scenes.
Someone’s adding Arijit Singh in the background. Someone’s writing, “Stay strong, king.”
Stay strong…
for what exactly?
His wife doing the job she’s been doing since before they got married?
Grow up yaar, mitron.
Toodlesss.
