Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker just lately grabbed headlines after her remarks on Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat Jauhar scene. The actor known as the scene “problematic”, inviting backlash on social media. Now, actor Ranvir Shorey has additionally criticised Swara’s remarks, calling her “completely shameless”.
Ranvir Shorey slams Swara Bhasker’s remarks on Padmaavat’s Jauhar scene
Ranvir took to X to criticise Swara for her remarks and questioned the connection she drew between Jauhar and rape survivors. He wrote, “I nonetheless don’t get it! Evaluating Jauhar (suicide by hearth in defiance of inevitable and infinite rape, violence and even necrophilia!) to rape survivors? The place’s the connection? They’re two fully totally different units! The one intention could be to malign one group of individuals whereas making an attempt to whitewash the opposite! Completely shameless!”
What did Swara Bhasker say?
Swara had written an open letter to Sanjay Leela Bhansali after the discharge of Padmaavat. When requested in regards to the letter, Swara made a controversial comment in regards to the Jauhar scene throughout a Lady, Life, Freedom speak on the India Worldwide Centre in Delhi. She stated, “I used to be watching it, and I assumed that if God forbid, I used to be a rape survivor, what is that this movie telling me? I might really feel like a coward that I didn’t commit suicide to avoid wasting my honour. Is that what you wish to inform in a society like ours the place I really feel like, anyway, there’s a rape epidemic? Is that this what we wish to inform our survivors that they don’t should reside, that in case you truly would have been an honourable and courageous lady, you’d have killed your self. Are we saying that rape is the top of a girl’s life? This scene was so problematic.”
She added that one specific scene made her extraordinarily offended. She recalled a close-up shot of a pregnant lady’s stomach as she carried out Jauhar, which left her shouting, “Chii” in disgust. She questioned the concept the unborn fetus, which may doubtlessly be a lady, didn’t should be born as a result of she could be raped by a Muslim ruler. Swara stated she was deeply upset by the scene and waited for 5 days to see if she nonetheless felt the identical approach earlier than writing the letter.
The actor confronted backlash for her remarks, with many criticising her interpretation of the Jauhar sequence and arguing that the historic follow shouldn’t be described as cowardice. Later, Swara took to Instagram and shared a video message explaining that she didn’t name Rani Padmavati “coward”. She additional questioned whether or not movies like Padmaavat must be made in the event that they “ship the message {that a} lady’s purity is extra priceless than her life?”
She added, “Ought to we be telling a rape survivor that it could have been higher if she had died, and that surviving the assault was a nasty factor?”
After Swara’s remarks, Padmaavat author Prakash Kapadia got here out in help of the scene. He known as the Jauhar sequence the “actuality of these occasions” and stated that whereas he had not been following Swara’s feedback, the controversy felt pointless to him.
