All posts tagged: womanhating

Tere Ishk Mein: Aanand L Rai’s woman-hating film doesn’t grant any grace to Kriti Sanon, but allows ‘hero’ Dhanush to burn someone alive | Bollywood News

Tere Ishk Mein: Aanand L Rai’s woman-hating film doesn’t grant any grace to Kriti Sanon, but allows ‘hero’ Dhanush to burn someone alive | Bollywood News

With blood dripping down his face and rage in his eyes, Shah Rukh Khan’s Rahul looked into the eyes of a trembling Kiran, played by Juhi Chawla, and proclaimed his love. She, obviously, was trying to get out of this situation alive as she stood in front of a man who had murdered someone to get close to her and she knew that he would do it again in a heartbeat. She couldn’t risk feeding into his obsession for this would only encourage him, so she spent her life in fear, running away from him, until he was dead. No one can deny that with Darr, director Yash Chopra romanticised the idea of an obsessive lover who doesn’t care about consent and consequences, and 32 years later, Aanand L Rai has come up with an even worse version of the same in Tere Ishk Mein. Rai’s interpretation of love stems out of the understanding that anything that goes wrong in any relationship involving a man and a woman is the woman’s fault. It comes from …

Officer on Duty: Cruel and convoluted, Kunchacko Boban’s woman-hating washout could give Bollywood a run for its money | Malayalam News

Officer on Duty: Cruel and convoluted, Kunchacko Boban’s woman-hating washout could give Bollywood a run for its money | Malayalam News

Movies like Officer on Duty make it difficult for you to give Indian filmmakers the benefit of the doubt. How could the widely celebrated writer Shahi Kabir, who broke out with the excellent Malayalam-language procedural Nayattu some years ago, produce something as misguided as Officer on Duty? Now out on Netflix after a successful theatrical run, the police thriller lacks everything that made Nayattu such a memorable pandemic-era experience; little attention is paid to the cultural specificities, the writing prioritises plot over characters, and unlike the rather progressive themes that Nayattu niftily wove into its riveting narrative, the politics in Officer on Duty are highly objectionable. For starters, it’s probably the most misogynistic piece of mainstream Indian entertainment since the Kamal Haasan-starrer Vikram from a few years ago. “Why does this movie hate its women so much?” you’ll wonder on several occasions, as young girls are molested, raped, and murdered for the sole reason to give the ‘hero’ something to do. The hero, in case you were wondering, is a man who kicks a pregnant …