Recently, screenwriter Javed Akhtar spoke at length about the portrayal of modern Indian women in films. Akhtar appeared on the podcast , where he criticized Yash Chopra’s , calling out a dialogue spoken by a female character in the movie. Speaking about the same, Akhtar said, “Ek picture thi Yash Chopra Saab ki, .
Usme ek dialogue hai from one of the heroines, ‘Mein duniya mein jitni nationalities hein, har nationality ke ek admi ke ladke ke saath sone ke baad shaadi karungi!’ Arre bhai, tu itni mehnat kyun karegi? Tu empowered hai? Tu modern hain? Tu cool hain? Tu forward thinking hain? Maan jaate hain naa...
itni mehnat karne ki zaroorat nahi hai tumko! Bahoot nationalities hain duniya mein, us chakkar mein mat paro.” 🎬 Jab Tak Hai Jaan - — Raj (@idfcwau) He then added, “Ab ye kya hain? Is dialogue ka kya matlab hai? Kahan aa rahi hain? Yash Chopra ki film mein! Because they want to fake that this is an empowered girl. They are not very clear what an empowered girl is, so they are exaggerating.
” Akhtar then said that, today, filmmakers are still confused about the idea of a modern Indian woman. was Yash Chopra’s last film and was released in 2012 after his death. The romantic drama starred Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, and Anushka Sharma.
Meanwhile, Akhtar’s last movie as a lyricist was , which was written and produced by his daughter Zoya Akhtar. Recently, Akhtar also spoke about the ‘angry young man’ character in Indian cinema and said, “In the South also, he (the hero) is turning into a caricature. Now he is the kind of man who wants a woman to lick his shoe.
He is already starting to turn into a caricature of an angry young man or a strong man.” When asked if he watched Ranbir Kapoor’s , Javed Akhtar said, “I haven’t seen . People told me about it, and I read in the news that he asked her to lick his shoe.
She bends down, but thank god they cut it right there.”.
