Dear Swara Bhasker,
We would have loved to have an interview with you talking all this. Seems you
are very busy at the moment with a packed schedule. Fair enough. But we would
still like to have your opinion on the following questions which we would have
posed in toto in the interview.
Our pages are still open- be it you talking exclusively to us or on social
media.
Swara Bhasker
We immensely respect you as an actress, and neither do we condemn your
point of view nor wish to sound condescending. However, we beg to
slightly differ. Here's the array of our questions:
How many times in a film a girl has killed herself when she is about to be
raped? Why haven't you objected to those movies?
Should Padmavati have allowed Khilji to capture her and then rape her, and then
wait for justice in a land of no cops and no law? I am not saying that there's
no life after rape, all I am saying is that by not undergoing Sati/Jauhar you
are simply saying that she should have resigned to her fate. Just a thought, is
that feminism?
A Still Of Ranveer Singh In Padmaavat
Talking about feminism, aren’t you misusing it?
Where's the glorification of Sati/Jauhar shown? Sati was done in that style in
those days, and that is what Bhansali has shown.
We condemn Jauhar and Sati too. But Padmaavat is a film depicting history.
Offering comments or interpreting it defeats the purpose and questions history.
How do you question history? History is simply revisiting ancient times.
Swara Bhasker Poses For A Photoshoot
How can the film be interpreted in today's times? God damn it, it's a period
film.
What beats me the most is that why the likes of you always sit on the other
side of fence? Is it that you just want to be heard?
Do you feel like just a vagina when matrimonial ads scream: Wanted fair and
good-looking bride.
Do you feel like a vagina where a woman walks up the ramp and juts out her
backside as she turns to go back?
Padmaavat Poster
Do you feel like a vagina when a woman uses her sexuality and seduces a man to
tilt a game in her favour?
As a man, should I say that seeing Ranveer Singh's Khilji
avatar reduced me to a penis? Wasn't the man only driven by lust (and
obstinacy) and consequently killing people left, right and centre?
Remember the scene, where Ranveer says 'Khaana lao, meri
bhook badh rahi hai'? Did you notice the double meaning, it's hunger of two
kinds if you know what I mean?
You have done Bhansali's Guzaarish. Do you think you have
burnt bridges with him, now?
If you had been offered Deepika Padukone's role, would
you have done it?
A Still Of Shahid Kapoor In Padmaavat
Had Bhansali not told you that he is going to shoot the
Sati/Jauhar scene with grandeur, would you have walked out from the film when
the final scene was eventually put forth to you?
If and when you meet Deepika, will you go up to her and tell
her that she done a big disservice to females of this country?
Alauddin Khilji comes with a battalion, so what is the
guarantee that other women would not be raped?
Jauhar is a choice that Padmavati made. She rather gave
up her life than be raped by Khilji. So, as a woman, shouldn't you respect
another woman's choices? Again, I repeat, Bhansali was portraying history and
history is simply revisiting ancient times.
A Still Of Deepika Padukone In Padmaavat
You say--- "I felt very uncomfortable watching your
climax, watching that pregnant woman and little girl walk into the fire. I felt
my existence was illegitimate because God forbid anything untoward happened to
me, I would do everything in my power to sneak out of that fiery pit– even if
that meant being enslaved to a monster like Khilji forever. I felt in that
moment that it was wrong of me to choose life over death." Swara, that's
your opinion. That's probably the choice you would have made had you been in
that situation. However, how can you know for certain that the pregnant woman
did not 'want' to walk into the fiery pit then? Again that's the choice
they made, and I repeat yet again that history is simply revisiting ancient
times.
PLEASE DON'T BUY BHANSALI'S DISCLAIMER THAT PADMAAVAT IS
A WORK OF FICTION, WHICH I THINK HE WAS FORCED TO PUT.
P.S: No female should feel like a VAGINA and no man
should feel like a PENIS after seeing Padmaavat.
Warm Regards,
Vickey Lalwani
Editor, SpotboyE.com