KAABIL- Like Seriously? This is what you want to sell in 2017?

TIME- 1:00 A.M.
ME- Trying to sleep but my distracted, perturbed mind refuses to stay at peace. Finally I open up my laptop.
ROOMMATE- making your project?
ME- Nope. Time to upload a blog.
ROOMMATE - It’s 1 A.M. Is it that necessary.

Yeah. It is necessary darling. The hurricane of thoughts that have been started in my mind after watching Kaabil won’t settle down and won’t let me sleep till I vomit it all out in the most ferocious way , the intensity reflecting the deep emotional disturbances that I am fighting at present.  

Well here is how the most insensitive part of the movie goes- The woman in the lead is raped and she commits suicide leaving suicide note saying  “mere sath jo hua wo mai le sakti hu lekin tumhe tutte hue nhi dekh sakti”  showing how even an independent, educated  woman like her can blame herself for the assault on her. Like seriously? You actually want to sell this in 2017? 

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Well I certainly believe that art and culture should have no boundaries but it is extremely important to be immensely careful not to show insensitivity to the sensitivity of humans specially when India is fighting against the menace  of women being  objectified by a patriarchal and feudalistic mind-set where it is so unfairly believed that  first the father owns her and then her husband. The filmmakers of Kabil have just showed how even an educated and independent woman’s thought process could be so influenced with this notion-of-past. The lead women has actually made it appear as if her rape was an attack on her husband’s ego and self respect forcing her to commit suicide. Did she actually believe that her rape was her fault just because she stepped out of house?

Dear actors, it is very easy  to tweet and sympathise, criticize any injustice happening to women  but it takes immense sense of moral responsibility for the same actor to say “NO” while enacting any absurd and morally insensitive scene in the movie. If Kabil only wanted to sell action it could definitely have been done by some other way instead of portraying to audience how a misogynistic hero made an independent and a well educated  woman  remind her of her subordinate status and how she feels solely responsible for all the unacceptable and highetened brutality on her.

Kaabil has only strengthened the point how a patriarchial society doesn’t think twice about shaming a rape survivor who is supposed to worry more about “family honour” than on her own distress. 

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