Actor Swara Bhasker has, in a blistering attack on Padmaavat, said she felt like a “vagina only” after watching the Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial.
The actress watched the movie “first day, first show”, and decided to share her “concerns” as it left her “stunned”.
Swara condemned magnifying self-immolation customs such as sati and jauhar.
She raised the question that do the women, be a widow, rape survivor, young, old, pregnant or pre-pubescent have right to live independent of whether men are living or not,
She stressed: “Women have the right to live, despite being raped, sir. Women have the right to live, despite the death of their husbands, male ‘protectors’, ‘owners’, ‘controllers of their sexuality’… whatever you understand the men to be. Women have the right to live—independent of whether men are living or not.”
Pointing to the message that film is delivering on the dignity of woman she said, “at the end of this great creation I felt that I have been reduced to vagina only. I felt that even after many massive movements of women rights and their small achievements like the right to vote, right to own property, right to the education, equal pay for equal work, maternity leaves; all were useless because we reached back to our root question.
she writes: “It would be nice if the vaginas are respected; but in the unfortunate case that they are not, a woman can continue to live. She need not be punished with death, because another person disrespected her vagina without her consent.”
“Women are not only walking-talking vaginas. Yes, women have vaginas, but they have more to them as well. So their whole life need not be focused on the vagina, and controlling it, protecting it, maintaining its purity.
I loved the performances by all the actors in #Padmaavat – The film is seductive in its grandeur, scale, beauty, power of its actors’s performances, music, design, vision… and therein lies the problem! Some thoughts.. sorry abt the length 🙈🙈🙈https://t.co/0hYnvlAvAD
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 27, 2018
