EXCLUSIVE! Bhumi Pednekar: I’m a feminist, but not the bra-burning type
| Aug 9, 2017, 16:24 IST
Be it ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’, ‘Shubh Mangal Savadhan’ or ‘Dum Lagake Haisha’, Bhumi Pednekar plays small-town girls with amazing strength of character in all of them. Is it because somewhere deep down, she too is a feminist like them? Bhumi says, "Yes, I’m a feminist, but not the bra-burning type. I am not a feminazi. I love men and I believe in equality. I understand that we cannot exist without each other, but I want men to give women the same kind of unconditional respect that they get from us. I’ve seen evolved men right at my home and so, I don’t want to bash up boys randomly. But yes, there is a large section of society, which is still stuck with the old mentality. I hope that films like ours help to change it. The good part is that youngsters are becoming aware that it’s not okay to follow old norms blindly."
When asked what drew her to ‘TEPK’, Bhumi says, "I chose it because it’s not about one girl, it’s about so many women who belong to a socio-economic strata jahan pe unke maa baap ne apna ghar girvi rakh ke unki shadi karvayi hogi, but they had the balls to walk out of their husbands’ homes because they didn’t provide for basic sanitation. Not having a toilet is not okay, and people are becoming aware of that. We’ve woven it around a love story to make people aware of their rights. Akshay’s character is a nice guy, but he doesn’t know that a toilet is a necessity and a right. That’s because like many other men, he too defecates in the open and doesn’t know any better. ‘TEPK’ is a prem katha where toilet is the villain, not angry parents and jilted lovers."
‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ will hit the theatres on 11th August.
When asked what drew her to ‘TEPK’, Bhumi says, "I chose it because it’s not about one girl, it’s about so many women who belong to a socio-economic strata jahan pe unke maa baap ne apna ghar girvi rakh ke unki shadi karvayi hogi, but they had the balls to walk out of their husbands’ homes because they didn’t provide for basic sanitation. Not having a toilet is not okay, and people are becoming aware of that. We’ve woven it around a love story to make people aware of their rights. Akshay’s character is a nice guy, but he doesn’t know that a toilet is a necessity and a right. That’s because like many other men, he too defecates in the open and doesn’t know any better. ‘TEPK’ is a prem katha where toilet is the villain, not angry parents and jilted lovers."
‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ will hit the theatres on 11th August.