Swara Bhasker on her open letter to Bhansali: If people don’t agree with me, it’s alright as it is a democratic country
| Updated: Jan 31, 2018, 11:46 IST
Swara Bhasker made headlines with her lengthy and thought-provoking letter to Sanjay Leela Bhansali after watching 'Padmaavat'. A part of her letter read, “You may be wondering why the hell I am going on and on thus about vaginas. Because Sir, that’s what I felt like at the end of your magnum opus. I felt like a vagina. I felt reduced to a vagina only.”
Swara's reaction to the film has garnered a lot of flak from fans as also from people in the industry slamming her for what she wrote. To this, Swara had much to say. “Everybody has a right to an opinion. Like I am entitled to an opinion, so is everyone else. I put forth my point of view. I feel I put across my point of view in a polite and respectful manner. I did not have any vicious intent. I had legitimate questions after watching the film and I raised those," she said.
“If people don’t agree with me, it’s alright as it is a democratic country. I had no idea that this would create such a mayhem and that people who are not connected to the film at all will get upset,” she added. “I didn’t have any mal-intent. I did not know that the letter would invoke so much interest,” she concluded.
Swara's reaction to the film has garnered a lot of flak from fans as also from people in the industry slamming her for what she wrote. To this, Swara had much to say. “Everybody has a right to an opinion. Like I am entitled to an opinion, so is everyone else. I put forth my point of view. I feel I put across my point of view in a polite and respectful manner. I did not have any vicious intent. I had legitimate questions after watching the film and I raised those," she said.
“If people don’t agree with me, it’s alright as it is a democratic country. I had no idea that this would create such a mayhem and that people who are not connected to the film at all will get upset,” she added. “I didn’t have any mal-intent. I did not know that the letter would invoke so much interest,” she concluded.