She said she reached out to her Muslim friends, including Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan , to ‘apologise’ after the verdict was announced. In a recent interview, the actor recalled that she felt ‘really ashamed’ after the Supreme Court’s 2019 Ayodhya verdict. Actor Swara Bhasker has once again found herself at the centre of controversy.
‘I was so upset when the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict came out’
I was like what is this country, and what is this verdict. Before her latest comment, Swara had also faced controversy over her criticism of the jauhar sequence in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film Padmaavat. I would feel like a coward that I didn’t commit suicide to save my honour. Is that what you want to tell in a society like ours where I feel like, anyway, there is a rape epidemic? Is this what we want to tell our survivors that they don’t deserve to live, that if you actually would have been an honourable and brave woman, you would have killed yourself. Are we saying that rape is the end of a woman’s life? This scene was so problematic. On the work front, Swara was last seen as a contestant on Pati Patni Aur Panga. She was last seen in a lead role in the film Jahaan Chaar Yaar.
Because i felt it was unfair, i was upset.
Speaking on The Midnight Hour podcast, Swara said, “I was so upset when the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict came out. Recalling her reaction to the scene at the Woman Life Freedom talk at the India International Centre in Delhi, she said, “I was watching it, and I thought that if God forbid, I was a rape survivor, what is this film telling me? Swara later clarified that her comments had been misinterpreted and said she had not called Rani Padmaavati or the women who performed jauhar “cowards.
