Bollywood diva and actress, Kangana Ranaut is well known for her feminist and bold take on a number of issues within the Bollywood industry, including the limited number of intelligent roles for women and nepotism.
However, the ‘Queen’ starlet has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A video of Kangana and Padmavaat actor Jim Sarbh has been making rounds on social media, where the two have been seen joking and laughing at the Cannes Film Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3esSmiwovg
The criticism arose due to the insensitive comments by Jim Sarb regarding rape in the video, “I’d rather be raped by 12 prostitutes than touch alcohol and the Punjabi says ‘Me too, I didn’t know that was an option.”
After the star told his joke Kangana can be seen laughing along with the res of the audience and Twitter is definitely not having it!
https://twitter.com/_shruti_singh_/status/996244764386213888
https://twitter.com/dhruveshshahz16/status/997106187177836544
https://twitter.com/karishmau/status/996423910831702017
One user even pointed out the double standards;
https://twitter.com/DeepikaBhardwaj/status/997366247854665733
A fan related it to the instance when the Queen star condemned Salman Khan’s use of the word rape during a promotional interview where he had said, “When I used to walk out of the ring, after the shoot, I used to feel like a raped woman. I couldn’t walk straight.”
And the Tanu Weds Manu actor had responded with, “We all agree that it is a horrible thing to say, it is something which is extremely insensitive. But what I would like to say is let’s not encourage the mentality where we want to point fingers at each other and want to feel greater by just running people down by trolling them.”
Jim Sarbh has since then given out his clarification, “The joke that I made is about a Priest blowing a very casual question completely out of proportion, condemning alcohol, prostitutes, and rape all simultaneously. The Punjabi (or whichever ethnicity, depending on the audience) responds to the situation by consenting to it and expressing his sexual proclivities. I personally do not find it to be about a desire to rape, or to inflict sexual violence upon another, but a subversive and comedic response to an extremely volatile sentence.”
But there seems to be no response from Kangana as of yet.
