'Baby' has been flooded with negative rants across social media platforms. It has been accused of being anti-women. "The film is ideologically in favour of perpetuating patriarchy and misogyny. Vaishnavi's lifestyle choices are demonized as deleterious. Sai Rajesh is a regressive filmmaker," feminists are arguing.
People have the freedom to express their reasons for disliking the movie. One aspect not commonly discussed is the perception that some individuals who identify as "Wokes" dislike 'Baby' because it portrays friends as unreliable and untrustworthy, while emphasizing the importance of family as the ultimate support system in our lives.
Cultural Marxists and Wokes who are in their late teens and early 20s tend to take the opposite position: for them, family is toxic and friends are always cute. In a culture like ours where the family system is one of the strongest pillars of civilization, villainizing one's parents is not something you can expect films to do. 'Baby' shows Vaishnavi's father (Naga Babu) trying his best to bail out his daughter when her college friend turns out to be a snake. Anand realizes how awesome his mother has always been.
'Baby' can be perceived as a Conservative film, contrasting the ultra-liberal ideology often associated with the Woke movement. Wokeism has gained significant traction among certain segments of the Telugu community. However, the uninformed and petty reactions to 'Baby' only seem to confirm this divide in ideology.
