It is as if Khaitan made a note to himself as he wrote the script: make sure you please those darned feminists, but also make sure not to displease misogynists who dominate film audiences. Sadly though, it chooses to send out its message via a tricky tightrope walk. On the face of it, BKD is indeed anti-patriarchal.

It marks a low in a film replete with disturbing mixed messaging although it no doubt wants to be remembered as a feminist venture taking a strong stand against dowry and exhorting parents to free their daughters to follow their dreams. This episode occurs in the second half of producer Karan Johar’s Badrinath Ki Dulhania starring Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. In case you care enough though, do read up on male rape. Watching that passage made me sick to the stomach, especially because Khaitan’s insensitivity stems, in all likelihood, from actual ignorance, as I assume is the case with the audience in the hall where I watched this film, men and women who collapsed into a collective heap of laughter at the possibility of a man’s ‘ lootthi izzat’.Ĭongratulations on scoring a goal, Mr Khaitan. Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan in a still from Badrinath Ki Dulhania.

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