Date: 09/06/2020
Indian movies promote rape by encouraging stalking, eve-teasing and objectifying women. The message from Bollywood for decades is "harrass a woman long enough with vulgar displays and she will eventualy fall into your arms.!"
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Swaminomics/films-sanctify-pestering-and-stalking-of-women/
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140205-does-bollywood-incite-sex-crimes
https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/ways-bollywood-is-contributing-to-rape-culture-in-india
(excerpts) Amitabh Bachchan strode the Bollywood scene like a colossus. His biggest contribution to female degradation was in the film Hum. In this, he and a gang of maybe 300 leering males demand a kiss from actress Kimi Katkar - the hit song "Jumma chumma de de."
Katkar sings back that she will not give a kiss. The male leerers insist on a kiss and douse her with a hosepipe. Ultimately, after several refusals, the song ends with Bachchan finally getting his kiss. He emerges grinning from the melee with lipstick smeared across his face. There could hardly be a more graphic message: if only you harass a woman enough, no matter how often she says no, she will ultimately say yes.
The greatest Hindi film of all time was probably Sholay. This had Dharmendra giving his version of how to win a girl. He jumps on the tonga (horse carriage) of tongawali Hema Malini, serenading her and grabbing her from behind. She fights him off, knocking him off the tonga. But he once again climbs aboard and continues with his musical harassment. The song goes, "Koi hasina jab rooth jati hai to, aur bhi hasin ho jati hai." (translation: when a beautiful girl gets pissed off with you, she becomes even more beautiful). Does he go to jail for this behaviour? Alas no, she falls into his arms! Great are the rewards of harassment.
I don't see films in other India languages. Some say they are even cruder, so let's not blame Bollywood alone. I'm told such crudity doesn't happen in big Bollywood films any more. Really? I saw Rockstar, in which Ranbir Kapoor forces his attentions on a girl, who initially resists but then asks him to take her to a raunchy film!
Let the last word come from somebody in the film business."There are films in which romantic wooing has been replaced by a kind of harassment of the heroine. The heroes of these films could be considered stalkers in some civil societies. Now imagine that this actor is a role model to millions… wouldn’t his fans think this behaviour is okay? Now imagine that this actress is a role model to millions… what message does it send to women across the country?"
Actor-director Farhan Akhtar says, things are getting worse. (excerpts)
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