Recently,
Salman Khan in an interview
said he felt like a raped woman.
“While
shooting, during those six hours, there’d be so much of lifting and thrusting
on the ground involved. That was tough for me because… When I used to walk out
of the ring, after the shoot, I used to feel like a raped woman.”
The twitterati
went abuzz taking umbrage to this remark: One person asks, ‘how does he
know what a raped woman feels’. Amir Khan thought it was ‘insensitive’.
Kangana Ranaut thinks his comments
were ‘horrible’. Anurag Kashyap felt
they were ‘very thoughtless’,
while Freida Pinto takes ‘offence’.
Such
a reaction is quite understandable. This
is definitely an insensitive remark in the modern context. Now, with so much awareness in gender
discrimination, sexual harassment of women, and child abuse, these statements
sound very insensitive and callous.
Yes,
insensitive and callous, statements of bad taste. Agreed.
But
are these statements illegal?
