Ek chutki bezzati ki keemat tum kya jaano Bollywood babu, ek aurat k sharir ka manchaha bhaag hai bezzati, pyaar se di hui zillat hai bezzati, patriarchy ka tohfa hai bezzati!
Shruti Jha
If you’re a Bollywood fan, buckle up because you are going to see the ultimate misogynistic adventure. Without any expectation that this blog will change your mind, let’s get in without any sharam or lihaaz as the mother-in-laws of Bollywood say.
Bollywood has been a leader for spreading anti-feminism ideas into the so-called fragile minds of the mundanes. Yeah, I am talking about humans. The bindiya queens or the zandu balm queens, no one cares about what harm their role does to the society.
Toxicity in B-town
To be precise, the so-called B-town feminists are Feminazis. The toxicity in Bollywood has increased to the extent of actresses being hypocritical with their statements. Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar, Tapsee Pannu and many others were the ones who took initiative in supporting Rhea Chakraborty, who is also a Bollywood actress and was accused for abetment of suicide of his alleged boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput.
The Bollywood divas stood up for Rhea Chakraborty when she was investigated about Sushant’s death and her involvement in drug dealing.
“Roses are red, violets are blue; let’s smash patriarchy me and you”, this quote was there on Instagram story of many Bollywood actresses which is a wonderful effort but there was no patriarchy seen anywhere in the case.
Feminism in its initial stages was about empowerment of women but gradually it became a broad spread movement not just for empowering women but people from every other gender who struggle and suffer just because of their gender. It is now empowerment of men, women, transgenders, gays, lesbians, queer community, asexual, and many more. The purpose has changed with time but the Bollywood Gen-z has no idea of what feminism actually means today. They talk about patriarchy but in today’s date not just patriarchy but toxic feminism is also dangerous. The toxic mindset of these Bollywood divas has created a negative impact on feminism.
Feminism supports the innocent but Rhea Chakraborty was already found guilty in the matter of drug dealing. Calling them out is necessary is what they believe and so do I. Swara Bhaskar, Sonam Kapoor and Tapsee Pannu, these three played a huge role in this movement as they say but did, they know the truth, no right? Where was #smashthepatriarchy when Anurag Kashyap was accused of rape because, where was #smashthepatriarchy when in the movie ranjhana eve teasing was portrayed as a cute gesture ‘out of love’, where was #smashthepatriarchy when Badrinath ki Dulhania had a scene of alia Bhatt getting kidnapped by the actor ‘out of love’. There’s no #smashthepatriarchy when models get raped, when women are portrayed as fools in the film, when women are shown damsel in distress in TV serials and movies. Where were they then?
Nope, they were busy shooting for item numbers that sexualize women. Housefull, Kabir Singh, Cocktail, Kabhi Khushi kabhi gam, Grand masti and thousands of more movies have delivered a single message to the audience that Bollywood will always remain under the dominance of patriarchy.
Non-consensual songs and scenes
It’s your boy Badshahhhh! Badshah has bad in his name and thus his songs are full of obnoxiously sexist lyrics that make no sense. His songs are not a problem unless he sexualizes women as patola, ful gulab di and what not. Objectifying them as red velvet cake, makkhan body and use of words lakkha and husn are like his all-time favourites. Bollywood was impressed by his fame so they encouraged him to make sexist songs for their movies. A huge round of applause to the Indian cinema, woah! Bollywood has a long history of sexist movies and songs. Let not all just the holi songs of b-town films has some visually sexist and troublesome content. Bollywood’s holi remains to be constantly colour blind to consent.
Time to dig in the mess:
Balam Pichkari- Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
Bunny be like: Naina let me look at your cleavage just once 😉
The song has a scene where bunny peaks into naina’s shirt to look at Naina’s cleavage and she pushes him with a smile. What the hell naina? You know he is a playboy why are you literally giving him chance to break your heart. How stupid of you? Girls like you make boys think- ladkiyon ki naa me unki haan hoti hai!
“Jaa kudiye, jo kar le, gora badan tera rang diya”- Oh hello, do you have Sanskaar or not? oh that is just for women right? You continue putting colours on women who say no for it. All the sharam and lihaz is for us women. Shahrukh khan’s movies have constantly shown misogynistic views. Remember, DDLJ the iconic movie of all time! It’s better to keep 0 expectations from the King Khan.
‘Bachke padosan jaane na paye, jaaye toh vaapas aane na paaye, Zulmi ne aise baazu maroda, Kajra na gajra kuch bhi na choda’
Wait, the writer is throwing up right now. Bollywood’s still not done of producing gross and misogynistic content. Who are these people who call themselves feminists? God bless you people, if he still exists after all this rubbish of India.
B-town’s sole message-
Ham nahi sudhrenge, thoda aur bigdenge!
No outro people, the writer is feeling dizzy after knowing about the Bollywood’s situation.
Shruti Jha
Indic Feminism 