Deepika Padukone launches VogueEmpower film 'My Choice' - Page 13

Originally posted by: Hollymirchi

Some comments are really interesting on youtube.

Like this one: "I am not sure how does this Bandra Pali Hill women video solve women's issues? Women who face severity of crime have no access to even watch this video. Let alone speak the same language." The Bandra Pali Hill thing made me laugh but this is exactly what I thought. Even though I believe the makers of the video including Deepika are really genuine, I think it lacks pragmatism and shows how much those people live in their Bandra-Juhu bubble. They are self-insuring themselves that they are doing something that really matters.

I don't know what to think of this one that some people found highly offensive: "If it is your choice to have sex outside marriage, it should be his choice too. Don't then call him a womanizer or get offended if he calls you a ... because what opinion he has of you is his choice! If he wants to marry a fair, beautiful girl don't call him sexist...because it is his choice to choose the partner he wants. If he wants to marry a woman who brings with her lot of wealth during marriage for his better life...don't call him a dowry seeker because it is his choice. It is his choice too to love a man or a woman or just himself or noone inside or outside of marriage. Don't ridicule him calling him impotent , gay, tharki and get him arrested because who he loves whether inside or outside marriage is his choice. It is his choice whether he wants to live with his parents or not. Don't force him for what you want because it's his choice and YOU made a choice to come to his home. Don't treat him as a robot that should operate so that your choices are taken care of. HE IS A HUMAN BEING and he too has ALL THE RIGHTS to HIS CHOICE! Also - do not file rape case on promise of marriage after having consensual sex because he made a CHOICE not to MARRY YOU. Ms Deepika Padukone and girls who agree with this video - make your choice but stand up to how society perceives your choices as - because how they look at it is entirely their CHOICE."

Originally posted by: NailClipper

Just watched the video. Music was good. Selfish me liked to lap up whatever she recited. But, when I imagined a guy reciting the same that's when I found some of the ideas wrong.

many guys are already practicing them

Originally posted by: hermione82

many guys are already practicing them

They are still wrong: Doesn't matter if someone is practicing them or those are just some ideas.

Originally posted by: NailClipper

They are still wrong: Doesn't matter if someone is practicing them or those are just some ideas.

yes agreed

First of all Deepika's voice and dialogue delivery are not upto the mark for such narration. It made no impact.

Secondly, if one imagines a man saying the same things then there are couple of mesages that one would disagree with.

Third it seems to be aimed at urban women in metropolitan cities. It means nothing for women in small towns and villages. Merely showing their faces doesn't give them a voice.

Last few lines "I'm infinite" and all sounded cheesy.

With sound: Seriously tacky.

On mute: Shampoo ad.

Originally posted by: NailClipper

Did Alia's and Madhuri's also have a first look/launching party?

I don't remember if they had special launch parties. Madhuri one was the best and is rightfully the most played one on TV. It said a lot with just one sentence unlike this verbose monologue.

Here's a response on FB:

Amrita Mukherjee
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Okay so as usual everybody is going gaga over the new video 'starring' Deepika Padukone, and as usual I am here to dissect it. Apparently all of you are highly appreciative of the message. Whose message again? Vogue's message. Not Deepika's but Vogue's. What exactly does the Vogue magazine do? Why was it marketed. Well, if you must know, since its inception, the magazine targeted the new New York aristocracy, establishing social norms in a country that did not value class and ceremony as much as England or France. See the primary problem I have with the primary party involved with the commercial, which you mistook as a 'message'? Vogue f**king India now wants to 'empower' women. And how? By this? Seriously, you want me to believe you did not get their marketing strategy? You want me to believe that you had no damn idea that they want to sell their product to an audience going high on 'indian feminism' at the moment? Oh, hold on...I forgot. You just see what they want you to see.

Next, let's come to the messenger involved. Deepika Padukone.

It's my choice how I live my life - that seems to the entire point of this video in the first glance. If it was solely so, I wouldn't have had a problem with it but it is not so.
It states along with the above, that I am robbing you of a chance to criticize, no matter what I do.
Take note of a few things she states,
1. "to have sex outside marriage, my choice" - would you look at your male partner the same way and wouldn't criticize if he did that either? Your partner HAS the right to criticize your sexual activities outside the relationship, if you are involved in a monogamous relationship.
2. "To be a size 0 or a size 15" - no, no one has the right to bodyshame you if you don't stick to the social standards of beauty. But you are a f**king hypocrite, who, on one hand shoots a video against body shaming and on the other gets paid to promote a cereal product (Kellog's Special K), which apparently helps you lose weight 'for the wedding season' so that you don't lose your confidence instead. And what about your Garnier fairness cream advert. Yes, you promoted the fact that you consider lighter skin tone better than darker. And remember, it's a person's choice whether the person will sleep with another overweight person or not. Taking a look at the people you have dated, I would say, you too stick to the 'hunk' standard in men.
3. "You are my choice, I'm not your privilege" - That is totally vice versa. Don't you go about jabbing as if it's an one way traffic.
4. "to have your baby or not" - f**k with you! That is a couple's choice. Just like you have the ovary and the egg, the man has the sperm. It's a decision that is taken between two sane adults, both of whom will share the love and responsibility involved. But then, I guess your brand of feminism doesn't have much sanity left.

Lastly let's take a look at your choices, or let's call it your fingerprints in your own words. You were a talented badminton player but you joined the most female objectifying profession in the universe. You joined f**king bollywood to get paid because you have a cleavage! YOU DON'T TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT PATRIARCHY. YOU ARE A PART OF IT! Keep your mouth shut and keep on raking the moolah as long as drooling males pay to watch your size 0.

https://m.facebook.com/amrita.mukherjee.75/posts/10202632709058924

Originally posted by: hermione82

yes agreed

only thing is how women and men are treated when they commit the same thing which may not be crime but immoral in a society like us