Does Rakhi Sawant deserve your sympathy
By:
Sunil
Noronha
Friday,
May
04,
2007
Viewers
of
TV
chat
show
Koffee
With
Karan
saw
an
oft
repeated
scene
in
Bollywood
last
Sunday
-
when
"item
girl" Rakhi
Sawant
broke
down
and
got
emotional
in
her
defense.
This
is
a
road
that
has
been
traveled
many
a
time
by
Bollywoods
item
girls,
when
they
claim
their
innocence.
Rakhi
Sawant
is
not
new
to
accusations
of
this
kind.
It
all
started
with
the
Mika
Mehndi
kiss,
was
prolonged
by
her
Kohlapur
antics
and
now
she
has
been
opposed
because
she
shot
an
advertisement
for
a
soap
company
in
which
she
bathed
on
front
of
a
Buddha
statue.
She said her self that she has been attacked by the media who have ruthlessly coined her an item girl. The fact of the matter is that she does all of it with great pride. She might sob about being ridiculed for it but in the end she will continue to do it despite whoever says whatever. She also mentioned during the show that she has worked hard to come to where she is in the industry. Well we all agree that she has worked hard in indeed. But how hard does one have to work to accomplish a sexist image like the one she has?
She is not alone in this endeavour. Her partners in crime Sherlyn Chopra aka Mona Chopra has also made drastic comments about the press and people in general demeaning her. She recently claimed in an interview that she was a serious actress and not an item girl - which the last serious movie that she did? Ofcourse there are others who carry the item girl tag with grace - take Kareena Kapoor and Mallika Sherawat for instance. They have gone past it and have made respectable actress out of themselves - and they are doing great movies now.
So does Rakhi Sawant deserve the sympathy (aka respectability) that she seems to be asking for. She herself said that people who used to despise her give her a lot more respect that they used because they heard that she was coming on Koffee With Karan. Any other takers?
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