‘Utterly Shameless’: Ranvir Shorey Slams Swara Bhasker Over Padmaavat Jauhar Remark

Ranvir Shorey questioned Swara Bhasker’s comparison between Jauhar and rape survivors, and said that the two have ‘completely different’ contexts.

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Ranvir Shorey Slams Swara Bhasker Over Padmaavat Jauhar Remark

Swara Bhasker’s recent comments on Jauhar have sparked criticism from Ranvir Shorey. The actress recently spoke about the portrayal of Jauhar in Deepika Padukone’s 2018 film Padmaavat. She said that the climax of the movie had disturbed her and questioned the message it could send to survivors of sexual violence. Ranvir Shorey took to X (formerly Twitter) to react to her remarks, questioning what connection there was between Jauhar and rape survivors, saying the two involved completely different contexts. He also questioned the intention behind making such a comparison.

Ranvir Shorey Reacts To Swara Bhasker’s Jauhar Remark

Ranvir Shorey wrote he doesn’t understand why Swara was comparing Jauhar and rape survivors. “I still don’t get it! Comparing Jauhar (suicide by fire in defiance of inevitable and endless rape, violence and even necrophilia!) to rape survivors? Where’s the connection?” he wrote.

Ranvir went on to draw a distinction between the historical practice of Jauhar and the experiences of rape survivors. He wrote, “They’re two completely different sets!”

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He further questioned the intention behind making such a comparison, saying, “The only intention can be to malign one group of people while trying to whitewash the other! Utterly shameless!”

What Did Swara Bhasker Say?

Recently, Swara was speaking at the Woman Life Freedom discussion at Delhi’s India International Centre when she argued that the climax of Padmaavat had disturbed her and questioned the message it could send to survivors of sexual violence.

“I’m watching this, these 800 women committing jauhar, and I was like, yaar, if I had been, God forbid, if I was a rape survivor, what is this film telling me? I would feel like a coward, that I didn’t kill myself to save my honour. Is that what you want to tell in a society like ours, where I feel like there’s anyway a rape epidemic?” she said.

Swara said she was disturbed by the idea that a woman’s life could be connected to her sexual purity. “Is this what we want to tell our survivors, that you didn’t deserve to live? That if you actually had been honourable and brave women, you would have killed yourself. Are we saying that rape is the end of a woman’s life?” the actress added.

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Swara Bhasker made the remark during a panel discussion called “Woman Life Freedom” at the India International Centre in New Delhi. She was answering a question about why she had written an open letter to director Sanjay Leela Bhansali in 2018 after watching the film Padmaavat. In that context, she questioned the film’s depiction of collective self-immolation (Jauhar) and what message it might send to survivors of sexual violence.

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