Sona Mohapatra Takes on The Right Way To Smash The Patriarchy with 10 Strong Points

Sona shares her take on the trending 'smash the patriarchy' slogan and listed 10 points on the right way to do it...

Sona Mohapatra

On Tuesday, when Rhea Chakraborty arrived at the NCB office and consequently got arrested in the 'drug link' in the Sushant SIngh Rajput death case, she was spotted wearing a black tee with a slogan that read, "Roses are red, violets are blue, let's smash patriarchy, me and you." 

This has started quite a trend on social media and many actors like Shibani Dandekar, Zoya Akhtar, Swara Bhasker among others have jumped in support of Rhea. Meanwhile, a new version of the slogan is also being used by SSR's family and supporters.

Now, singer Sona Mohapatra has taken to social media to list down 8 points on the right way to 'smash the patriarchy.'

Right fom equal pay for female actors to more women directors, Sona listed some important points. She tweeted, “Lets do this the right way dear #Bollywood & #India cus the rest is mostly hot air. 1) Pay your top actresses the same as your top actors.2) Write enough worthy roles 3) Film them ‘solo songs’ to make them larger than life? (No, item numbers don’t count). #SmashThePatriarchy.”

Adding more to the list, she wrote: , “4) Speak up(at least once?) about ur superstar of ages;a poster boy of toxic masculinity,a bully,serial abuser of women’s rights. Instead directors,producers,writers scramble to create more virtue signalling films for him? Actresses bend backwards to star in them. 5)B more inclusive in ur choices of film technicians. Don’t assume a female DOP cannot shoot a big budget film cus she’s not ‘strong’ enough?!Some of the best films in the west are shot by women!My fav;Ellen Kuras. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.”

Sona also pointed out the lack of female singers in the industry and the silence of female actors on the MeToo movement. “6) Worry & do something about the horrendous statistics of only 8/9 songs out of the 100 released by you having a female singer in #Bollywood. The solo female songs always reprise versions, never to be promoted. The duets having us in chorus only? 7)Be ashamed of the systemic-institutional sexism, misogyny & lopsided power structure in the industry where NOT ONE lead actress or actor spoke up about the inconvenient truths in the #MeToo movement. Almost everyone looked the other way.”

She suggested to encourage women filmmakers and wrote, “8)Trust women directors (not just the ones from the film families)with bigger production budgets.They are less likely to blow it up on wasteful ego-driven choices2.Financing a woman driven project is difficult as hell.Kudos to producer @AnushkaSharma for backing women directors.”

In the last two points, Sona wrote: "9)Also stop casting 50 plus Male ‘heroes’ in romantic angles with women half their age... the list is endless really #Bollywood . #SmashThePatriarchy #India"

"10) Cast older actresses for older women’s roles at least? Also, why should lead actresses be pushed to retirement & oblivion in their mid 30’s while men carry on endlessly ??'

Check out her tweets here: 

https://twitter.com/sonamohapatra/status/1304245134867836928?s=19https://twitter.com/sonamohapatra/status/1304249409564291077?s=19https://twitter.com/sonamohapatra/status/1304254232166641664?s=19https://twitter.com/sonamohapatra/status/1304297367277985792?s=19

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