Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar is new troll material on the internet.Twitter and Facebook have gone berserk at the actress for her open letter to Padmavat director Sanjay Leela Bhansali on glorifying “Jauhar” (Sati Sahagamanam) in the climax of the film.She says “at the end of the magnum opus, I felt reduced to a vagina” for showing Rani Padmavati committing suicide when Allaudin Khilji invades her kingdom and kills the King.
“Women are not only walking talking vaginas.Yes, women have vaginas, but they have more to them as well.So their whole life need not be focused on the vagina and controlling it, protecting it, maintaining its purity.
(Maybe in the 13th century that was the case, but in the 21st century, we do not need to subscribe to these limiting ideas.We certainly do not need to glorify them.
)It would be nice if the vaginas are respected; but in the unfortunate case that they are not, a woman can continue to live.She need not be punished with death because another person disrespected her vagina without her consent.
There is life outside the vagina, and so there can be life after rape.(I know I repeat, but this point can never be stressed enough.)In general, there is more to life than the vagina.” The 29-year-old actress quotes in her letter.
But her open backfired.Irrespective of gender (take as even women) are going furiously over the actress for stamping feminism on an 800-year-old story.
One has wonder what’s the point of Swara? Should Bhansali have been altered the history and show a fantasy climax like Baahubali 2?
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