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Women’s Activists Up In Arms Against Badrinath Ki Dulhania's 'Male Molestation' Scene!
Women's activists and the moral police are up in arms against a male molestation scene in Badrinath Ki Dulhania and director Shashank Khaitan defended himself and the scene.
Women's activists and the moral police are up in arms against a scene in Badrinath Ki Dulhania in which Varun Dhawan's clothes are torn off in a dark alley and Alia Bhatt rescues him by covering his modesty by using her dupatta and everyone shares a hearty laugh at the joke which is presented in a light hearted manner.
However,
not
everyone
took
the
joke
lightly
and
have
targeted
producer
Karan
Johar
and
director
Shashank
Khaitan
for
cracking
jokes
on
a
sensitive
topic
like
molestation,
whichever
gender
it
might
be.
In
his
defence,
Shashank
Khaitan
said
that
he
did
not
trivialise
or
ridicule
the
crime
and
said
that
his
intention
was
just
to
showcase
the
actor's
plight
and
helplessness
in
the
scene
in
a
comical
way.
He
said,
"The intent was to show Badri's character at an all-time low. Emotionally he was down and out. Vaidehi (Bhatt) had stripped him of his 'mardangi' when she asked him to call his father and he couldn't. He was emotionally defenceless and was unable to even protect his physical 'izzat'. The humour was to comfort and not trivialise the issue."
Shashank Khaitan also pointed out that such scenes in Aamir Khan's 3 Idiots were made skillfully but if misinterpreted, everything looks offensive. He said, "One of the most legendary scenes in recent times is Raju Hirani's 3 Idiots scene. If taken in the wrong spirit, even that can seem offensive."
