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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, known for his
chivalrous attitude, says nobody has dared
to misbehave with a woman on his film sets.
The actor, who was feted with a Crystal
Award at the World Economic Forum summit
in Davos along with Hollywood celebrities
Cate Blanchett and Elton John, spoke to BBC
World News at length on gender equality in
Bollywood and the cultural differences in
India.
In the midst of the raging debate over
sexual misconduct allegations against
powerful men in Hollywood, Shah Rukh was
asked if he has witnessed sexual
misconduct in the Hindi film industry and
done anything about it. "At a level when I'm
making films or working in films, we are
very clear about the attitude to women. Even
the smallest aspects, of the names coming
first in title, which is not going to do
anything, but the kind of respectability,
Shah Rukh said on the "HARDtalk on BBC
World News show. (ALSO READ: Aamir Khan
called Shah Rukh Khan to discuss Secret
Superstars success in China heres what
happened next )
"Even this small thing needs to be done just
to bring about the equality... Just see what
we've reduced ourselves to. You know, to
put a girl's name in front just to show what
little guys we are, thinking of them as
equals. And that is sad and that is strangely
dichotomous when you're talking about
creativity, and you have boys and girls
working together. "I have never personally,
first hand and nobody, if I may say, nobody
dared misbehave with a woman on my set, I
am very clear on that, he added. A
transcript of the interview was provided to
IANS by BBC.
On inter-communal tensions and divisions
that the world has been observing in
modern-day India, the actor said: "There will
be dissent for everything and I think, like
you would also believe and we all believe,
there has to be a discussion on it. Shah
Rukh believes there cannot be a radical
standoff when there is dissent. "I think you
can have a discussion and then you can talk
about it in our country we are the biggest
democracy and if you are the biggest
democracy, dissent is a part and parcel of
that and as much is discussion. (ALSO
READ: IT department sends a legal notice to
Shah Rukh Khan over wrongful use of his
Alibaug property )
"So, when you have a story and you know
when you go out sometimes, there's dissent,
but as a filmmaker, as a citizen of a country
and the world, you know when there's
dissent, can we just have a little bit of
discussion about it and sort it out instead of
you know taking standoff positions... So it is
possible, he added. Questioned if there is a
kind of Hindu nationalism that is not
fostering good inter-communal ties, Shah
Rukh said: "Because of social media,
whenever a certain thing, when small
factions or fractions of things happen now,
they seem a little bigger. But the beauty of all
this is that within all this trolling and anger
and people expressing themselves, they're
all also connecting. (ALSO READ: Is Hina Khan
going to be a part of Shah Rukh Khans Ted
Talks? Heres the answer )
"I just see it on social media. I don't see it
live anywhere and I would be wrong to
comment on it that way, but I think if you
have this kind of dissent or whatever if
people claim it, I think just a bit of
discussion especially, finally, if it's not going
to be inclusive, everybody will suffer. But I
think we're not at that stage at all in our
country, he added.
The episode will air on Wednesday night.
http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/shah-rukh-khan-nobody-dares-to-misbehave-with-woman-on-my-film-sets/,
chivalrous attitude, says nobody has dared
to misbehave with a woman on his film sets.
The actor, who was feted with a Crystal
Award at the World Economic Forum summit
in Davos along with Hollywood celebrities
Cate Blanchett and Elton John, spoke to BBC
World News at length on gender equality in
Bollywood and the cultural differences in
India.
In the midst of the raging debate over
sexual misconduct allegations against
powerful men in Hollywood, Shah Rukh was
asked if he has witnessed sexual
misconduct in the Hindi film industry and
done anything about it. "At a level when I'm
making films or working in films, we are
very clear about the attitude to women. Even
the smallest aspects, of the names coming
first in title, which is not going to do
anything, but the kind of respectability,
Shah Rukh said on the "HARDtalk on BBC
World News show. (ALSO READ: Aamir Khan
called Shah Rukh Khan to discuss Secret
Superstars success in China heres what
happened next )
"Even this small thing needs to be done just
to bring about the equality... Just see what
we've reduced ourselves to. You know, to
put a girl's name in front just to show what
little guys we are, thinking of them as
equals. And that is sad and that is strangely
dichotomous when you're talking about
creativity, and you have boys and girls
working together. "I have never personally,
first hand and nobody, if I may say, nobody
dared misbehave with a woman on my set, I
am very clear on that, he added. A
transcript of the interview was provided to
IANS by BBC.
On inter-communal tensions and divisions
that the world has been observing in
modern-day India, the actor said: "There will
be dissent for everything and I think, like
you would also believe and we all believe,
there has to be a discussion on it. Shah
Rukh believes there cannot be a radical
standoff when there is dissent. "I think you
can have a discussion and then you can talk
about it in our country we are the biggest
democracy and if you are the biggest
democracy, dissent is a part and parcel of
that and as much is discussion. (ALSO
READ: IT department sends a legal notice to
Shah Rukh Khan over wrongful use of his
Alibaug property )
"So, when you have a story and you know
when you go out sometimes, there's dissent,
but as a filmmaker, as a citizen of a country
and the world, you know when there's
dissent, can we just have a little bit of
discussion about it and sort it out instead of
you know taking standoff positions... So it is
possible, he added. Questioned if there is a
kind of Hindu nationalism that is not
fostering good inter-communal ties, Shah
Rukh said: "Because of social media,
whenever a certain thing, when small
factions or fractions of things happen now,
they seem a little bigger. But the beauty of all
this is that within all this trolling and anger
and people expressing themselves, they're
all also connecting. (ALSO READ: Is Hina Khan
going to be a part of Shah Rukh Khans Ted
Talks? Heres the answer )
"I just see it on social media. I don't see it
live anywhere and I would be wrong to
comment on it that way, but I think if you
have this kind of dissent or whatever if
people claim it, I think just a bit of
discussion especially, finally, if it's not going
to be inclusive, everybody will suffer. But I
think we're not at that stage at all in our
country, he added.
The episode will air on Wednesday night.
http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/shah-rukh-khan-nobody-dares-to-misbehave-with-woman-on-my-film-sets/,
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