India, July 9 -- R Madhavan made his Hindi film debut 24 years ago with Rehna Hai Terre Dil Mein (RHTDM), and while the film became a cult classic over the years, his character Maddy in the film has been called out multiple times for being patriarchal. In his upcoming film Aap Jaisa Koi, he plays an ageing man, struggling to find love due to his conditioning in a patriarchal society.

Ask him how men with patriarchal mindset have changed in these years on screen and R Madhavan says, "If you look back at any Hindi film hero, you will find that he is completely flawed because that's part of the way Indian culture has been represented. There is no actor in the Hindi film industry whose one film or the other is not about toxic masculinity. Do...