Sonam Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor starrer Veere Di Wedding is all set to hit the screens, and the team has already declared it’s not a chick-flick. However, the portrayal of women, as seen in the trailer of the film, has been questioned, with people accusing the film of “reducing female empowerment to behaving like men”.
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In an interview to film critic Anupama Chopra for her YouTube channel Film Companion, the star cast of the film addressed the accusations. Talking about all the four leads drinking and smoking in the film, Sonam Kapoor said, “I don’t think this question would be posed to men that you are drinking, smoking and abusing or sexually active, does this make you less of a man?”
However, Swara Bhaskar said Veere Di Wedding was never presented as a feminist film. “Just because people saw four girls who are in a certain urban setting being realistic to what young urban working women, what their lifestyle is… a lot of us who come from this background, we do curse, we do drink..,” she said. To this, Sonam added, “And we are sexually active. We are not sitting waiting till we get married.”
Swara went on to say, “Just because we are showing that on screen, why is that becoming an issue? When we allow our male characters to be as close to reality as possible, why can’t we let our women have that?”
Pointing out the misogynistic dialogues in Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Sonam said, “People have celebrated that film and nobody has once said that don’t you think you are being a little misogynistic by talking about how women are a certain way and how men are looked at as commitment phobic and women are desperate to get married?”
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“At a point where we are making a film which is entertaining, which is pretty real… We do swear, we do talk in a certain way,” said the Padman actor.
Directed by Shashanka Ghosh, Veere Di Wedding is slated to release on 1 June. The film will feature Kareena Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar, Shikha Talsania and Sumeet Vyas in pivotal roles.