At a time when we are surrounded by toxic male protagonists like Arjun Reddy, Kabir Singh, and the troubled alpha in Animal, it felt refreshing to see Aanand L Rai attempt to dissect the same trope in Tere Ishk Mein. That is, until he completely ruined it in the end. Rai introduces us to Shankar (Dhanush), a man whose rage comes from a traumatic childhood memory: watching his mother burn to death because he couldn’t afford treatment for her burns. He’s angry, volatile, and clearly broken.

Enter Mukti (Kriti Sanon), a PhD scholar who believes she can erase anger from the human psyche through a clinical, experimental method. So, naturally, she chooses Shankar as her subject—a man who is introduced to us while beating someone in the college auditorium over a student election. And from this

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