Ratna Pathak Shah gets trolled over her 'Karwa Chauth' remark

Veteran actress Ratna Pathak Shah is currently receiving heavy backlash for her remarks on the tradition of Karwa Chauth. Every year, married Hindu women mark the one-day festival known as Karwa Chauth, during which they fast from dawn to moonrise and offer prayers for their husband's long life.

Ratna in a recent interview said that women in the twenty-first century continue to practice antiquated customs like Karwa Chauth and termed it 'appalling'.

While she revealed it was for the first time last year she was asked if would fast for her husband, Ratna also said that India is becoming ‘a conservative society’ and the first thing it does ‘is clamp down on its women’ – just like they have done in a country like Saudi Arabia.

Reacting to the same one user commented, 

"People commenting on my belief system is Appalling. I do Karwachauth cause I live in a free country where I CAN follow what I believe. I am a MODERN woman because I am not judgemental about others. I am also an INTELLIGENT woman because I know my rights."

Another one said,

"School girls n modern women wearing hijab is ‘Freedom of choice’..  Modern women doing Karva Chauth is ‘Appalling’!! Btw Ratna Pathak Shah when r u removing ur husband's surname from ur name?? Isn't that regressive for u??  Kahaan se laato ho itna doglaapan" ??

While one user said,

"People like Ratna Pathak Shah will only further distance the audience from Bollywood! Do your job which is to entertain! Don't preach! It's not your place! How difficult is it to understand?"

For the unversed, Speaking to Pinkvilla, Ratna had said, "Someone asked me for the first time last year if I'm keeping 'karwa chauth ka vrat. I said, 'Am I mad?' Isn't it appalling that modern educated women do karwa chauth, praying for the lives of husbands so that they can have some validity in life? Widow in the Indian context is a horrible situation, isn't it? So anything that keeps me away from widowhood. Really? In the 21st century, we are talking like this? Educated women are doing this."

Meanwhile, on the work front Ratna Pathak Shah she was seen in Jayeshbhai Jordaar and now will next be seen in Dhak Dhak alongwith Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanjana Sanghi and Dia Mirza.