Sultan director invite trouble for his seemingly sexist views?

During a recent interview with journalist, Anupama Chopra, he was asked about Aarfa, Anushka Sharma's character in Sultan, who ditched her Olympics dream to welcome her pregnancy. To which he replied, "To make a husband-wife film, we wanted to explore it with a simple emotion - how does a woman look in towards a relationship and how does a man look in towards a relationship. Here is a woman who is a state champion but her dreams are put on the side because he is happy that they are going to have a child."

He reiterated that Aarfa is definitely a very strong character and she never gets sidelined. He added, "I am going to account to that, because, I feel that there is a certain demand that a story-telling takes. When you are telling the story of Sultan, it is a journey of a man. He is doing everything for that girl. When he is on this journey of finding himself again, you are going to stay with him, not see what the girl is doing."

Well, the film's title did say Sultan, and not Aarfa! Or for the matter Chak De India 2!

However, his best lines come when he speaks about the pregnancy factor in the film. He continued, "A girl who comes so strongly, is a state champion, dreams of winning the gold medal - but by that time in the story, the scene has changed, it has become personal. She is madly in love with Sultan. For every couple, the dream is a birth'. When that comes in, she had to choose between aspirational or emotional. According to me, that is a human thing because she chooses emotional."

He even went into bring in animal instincts to make his facts string. "I have seen that in my house. That is my understanding of a relationship. No matter what happens, whenever the issue of pregnancy comes in, the girl may have to give up her work, because physically she needs to do that. That is the time to get the animal instincts into human beings - as the man will go hunting and the woman will stay at home."

Well, don't know why women should stay at home just because they are pregnant, and I also don't know about any male animals who would hunt for their females just because they are preggers! Birds do though, but that happens after eggs are hatched!

To his defence, we must add that Aarfa cannot wrestle anyways with her pregnancy, and she is shown training Sultan in the film. So she is doing her job BTW.