Saumya Tandon recently reacted to the trolls, who claimed that her latest film, Dhurandhar, is ‘misogynistic’. She slammed the netizens and defended the movie with a long note on Twitter. She went on to clarify the intention of the film.
Dhurandhar, which released on December 5, has set the internet on fire for various reasons, including Akshaye Khanna’s viral entry dance to power-packed action scenes and much more. While there is a positive wave about the movie online, some netizens also criticised the film, calling it ‘misogynistic’. Recently, actress Saumya Tandon, who played Khanna’s onscreen wife in the film, reacted to one such troll that claimed that the film promotes misogyny. She also took a dig at movies in which women are shown being beaten and objectified. The actress further asserted that the viewers must understand that the concept of the film is completely different.
What did the troll say about Dhurandhar?
A female netizen took a dig at Ranveer Singh and his movie, Dhurandhar, in her latest tweet. She wrote, “Step 1: be a male actor in Bollywood who is known for being a soft-boy. Step 2: realize you are becoming irrelevant and your female audience is losing interest. Step 3: grow out your beard and hair to look like a mindless caveman with no hygiene so you can cater to the male audience. Step 4: star in a misogynistic movie as a manchild with 0 emotional intelligence and get thousands of fanboys and fanmen. Step 5: promote aggression and misogyny under the name of “masculinity” and earn crores of rupees while real men get influenced by your actions and go around doing real harm to women. But you don’t care cause you’re rich and have no ethics ? Some more such examples : Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor (sic).”
Opposing the tweet, another user wrote, “Both the female leads legit slap men and they don’t even react. This woman wouldn’t have even watched Dhurandhar, but as usual, making lame points to play woman card which has no relation with the movie (sic).”
Saumya Tandon slams troll
Saumya Tandon then jumped into the conversation and defended Dhurandhar. She reacted, “Agreed. In the universe Dhurandhar is set in, with the societal norms the director chose to depict, it is a male-dominated world, yet the women are treated with dignity. They aren’t beaten, objectified, or shown as one of many wives, even though that society could have allowed it. It’s important to remember we’re dealing with a very different world (sic).”
Tandon added,”Sorry that the grain of this story doesn’t allow for glamorous heroines singing songs on exotic beaches, that may work for other scripts, but not in this one. That said, as an actor, I do hope I also get opportunities to be part of women-centric narratives (sic).
What is Dhurandhar all about?
The spy action thriller movie focuses on the story of an Indian spy who went to Pakistan on a mission to supply secrets about the ongoing planning against India. It shows the dangerous and ruthless underworld of Lyari, which planned the 2001 Indian Parliament attack and the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks. Dhurandhar stars Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, Rakesh Bedi and R. Madhavan in key roles. The film has been written and directed by Aditya Dhar. The movie has collected Rs 152.75 crore in 5 days of release.
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