I will talk about marriage when the same questions are asked to male actors, says Sonam Kapoor

Snehha Suresh | Jan 17, 2018, 12:51 IST
Sonam Kapoor feels that the whole attitude towards married actresses should change. She feels that everyone should keep on working and changes will come in time. Sonam Kapoor states that the question of marriage should be asked to the male actors also. Like everyone is talking about Kareena Kapoor Khan and Rani Mukerji’s comeback at the movies after childbirth.


Sonam Kapoor said, “I will start talking about it when the media will start asking the same questions to all the male actors in our industry -- about how they will take up their career after marriage, when will they make a comeback after the birth of their baby... This whole attitude towards married actress should be changed.”


She further added, “Whether it is Nutan, Nargis, Waheeda Rehman, Sharmila Tagore, Dimple Kapadia, Madhuri Dixit, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor Khan -- they are all loved by our audience even after their marriage. So the mindset has been encouraged by a few filmmakers and media people. But hey, there are progressive and non-progressive minds in every business. So as in our industry. We should keep working... the change will come.”


Talking about her next film ‘PadMan’, Sonam Kapoor said, “I think it is important to make a film that is entertaining but also has a message along with it. And as an actor, if I have a reach to a wider audience, why not support a story that is deserved to be told? Otherwise, what is the point of making films that create no impact in the mind of our audience?”


Sonam Kapoor further added, “In the first place, women are looked at differently in our society as we do not give them the same opportunity and respect for a man. That happens in most Indian households. When a girl child grows up and starts chumming, there is a stigma attached to it and makes the girl feel less, inferior and under-confident. On the contrary, that whole physical transformation makes a girl special. She is enabled to reproduce. She should be taught to celebrate it, not to hide it. I hope that after the film releases, the stigma attached to menstruation and its hygiene will go away.”


Earlier even Surveen Chawla had said, “Being married does not make an actress less desirable”.


‘PadMan’ is set to release on 25th January 2018. It also stars Akshay Kumar and Radhika Apte in lead roles.

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