#Barkha dutt marriage movie#

And Barkha Dutt didn’t recoil in horror about that depiction and worry whether today’s young Indian men would copy Alauddin’s sexual practices? The “Padmaavat” film depicts this behavior as a right of Alauddin and as a validation of Alauddin’s virility. And even in today’s Afghanistan, Afghan Pashtuns take young boys with them in the old Baccha Baaji custom. Even in today’s Afghanistan, Pashtun husbands have absolute rights over their wives. Secondly, in our opinion, Barkha Dutt’s “comic book” adjective was a lie, either out of ignorance or with deliberation.īarkha Dutt knows that the depiction of sexual practices of 14th century Afghan Pashtuns in Padmaavat is valid even today. It ONLY DEPICTS Afghan Pashtuns and, in particular, the Ghilzai/Khilji tribe. The Padmaavat film does NOT depict Muslims, certainly not Indian Muslims. Perhaps a clue is in another of her lines – “ The film is a comic-book depiction of Muslims“.

Why didn’t Barkha Dutt protest vehemently about showing sexual abuse & predation of women in such celebratory glorious royal fashion? Why didn’t Barkha Dutt worry about young Indian men copying the actions of the strong, virile, unconquerable warrior hero of this “Padmaavat” film?

The film also depicts Alauddin’s sexual relationship with his younger man (eunuch) slave, a relationship that was deeper & more important than Alauddin’s relationship with any of his wives.Īnd Barkha Dutt didn’t recoil in horror from this true portrayal of Alauddin? She didn’t even write a single solitary sentence in her article about Alauddin’s treatment of his wives & other women? Isn’t this the same Barkha Dutt who rails against “marital rape” in India and the “patriarchical” treatment of women in India? They were his possessions and nothing more. The film makes it clear that his many wives were nothing to Alauddin expect objects to be used for his pleasure, by force if necessary. In a later scene, Alauddin is shown demanding sexual gratification from another of his wives, a daughter of a southern Indian king given to Alauddin as a gift by her defeated father. Then he commands his wife to sexually gratify him the way he wants. After his coronation as the new Sultan, Alauddin strides into his wife’s bedchamber and tells her he has made her the new queen of India. Shortly thereafter, Alauddin lures the reigning Sultan, now his father-in-law, to his home and murders him. Then, during the wedding celebration, Alauddin has forceful dominating sex with a woman companion of his wife while his wife waits for him in the wedding feast. Because the first 30 minutes or longer of this film is a total celebration of sexual predation & abuse of women & wives by a powerful man.Īlauddin, the victor over the Mongols, first demands the hand of the Sultan’s daughter in marriage. But what about the first 30 minutes, we wondered.

#Barkha dutt marriage movie#

We begin with her sentence “ I watched the last 30 minutes of the movie in absolute horror“. And that window comes from her own article in Washington Post about the new blockbuster Bollywood film “Padmaavat”. Now we have a real window into her “fake” commitment to women’s rights. Barkha is smart, articulate with a rare abilility to get ahead personally.īut we have never seen any real genuine commitment in Barkha Dutt towards any causes she takes up. The Indian doyen in this area is probably Barkha Dutt, a well known “journalist” & “activist”. Many Indian public women have adorned the garb of feminism but, in our sad experience, it is only a garb to collect attention, money and power. Unfortunately we find that too many talk about it without any real commitment to feminism. Feminism is an important, powerful and utterly basic concept.