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Veere Di Wedding is a movie that excited the Bollywood fans and enthusiasts much before its release. The anticipation was mainly because the movie marked the comeback of Kareena Kapoor and also because of the all female lead cast in the film. But as soon as the official trailer launched, the movie received flak on social media and attracted controversy. The argument of public dissing on the movie was that, Veere Di Weeding reduces women empowerment and feminism to women drinking, cussing, smoking and openly talking about sexual desires. Many even wanted to boycott the movie for it’s wrong depiction of women empowerment.

So finally during an interview with Anupama Chopra for film companion the cast opened up and addressed the double standards and hypocrisy towards the female led movies in Bollywood. When Anupama asked, is there danger of reducing women empowerment is to behaving more like men or to smoking, drinking, this is how the Sonam Kapoor and Swara Bhaskar replied

Sonam Kapoor jumped right in and made herself clear. She said:

“It’s completely misconstrued what feminism and women empowerment is. It’s a choice. The choice is that we are all four different characters and we all have different ways of behaving.”

Then Swara Bhaskar took over and said: “It’s taken 105 years for mainstream Bollywood to make a film about four girlfriends and none of them are falling in love with the same guy.”She added, “No one asks Anurag Kashyap why his characters swear this much?”

Sonam later talked about how Pyaar Ka Punchnama a highly misogynistic movie was widely celebrated. She added,

“Pyaar Ka Punchnama was very misogynistic. Nobody has said, “don’t you think you’re being misogynistic by portraying women in a certain way or men as commitment phobic?”

Watch the full interview here.

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