Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker just lately grabbed headlines after her remarks on Sanjay Leela Bhansali‘s Padmaavat Jauhar scene. The actor referred to as the scene “problematic”, inviting backlash on social media. Now, actor Ranvir Shorey has additionally criticised Swara’s remarks, calling her “totally shameless”.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 utterly completely different units! The one intention may be to malign one group of individuals whereas making an attempt to whitewash the opposite! Completely shameless!”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 Girl, Life, Freedom discuss 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 save lots of my honour. Is that what you need to inform in a society like ours the place I really feel like, anyway, there’s a rape epidemic? Is that this what we need to inform our survivors that they don’t should stay, 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 lady’s life? This scene was so problematic.”She added that one explicit 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 that the unborn fetus, which might probably be a lady, didn’t should be born as a result of she is perhaps 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.She added, “Ought to we be telling a rape survivor that it will 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 assist of the scene. He referred to 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.
