Imtiaz Ali clarifies controversial comments about women’s safety, says ‘acts of a few give bad name to hundreds of well-mannered men’

“I was pointing retired that it is doubly frustrating that the full movie industry, each those hundreds of men connected each acceptable who are different remarkably well-mannered, get a atrocious sanction for the acts of a few. Of course, unspeakable things person happened and proceed to hap and they are shameful – arsenic an manufacture and nation, we should person a zero-tolerance argumentation towards them. We person to uphold our honour unneurotic and careless of gender,” helium added.

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At his IFFI panel, Imtiaz had said immoderate days ago, “The movie manufacture successful Bombay is singular for the mode it treats its women and I, arsenic a man, person noticed this. If determination are 200 radical moving successful a unit, it is simply a precise harmless abstraction for women.”

He chose to corroborate his constituent by narrating an lawsuit of harassment connected 1 of his sets. “There person been 3 times successful my full beingness that I’ve sent radical (crew members) back, from antithetic places, from antithetic sets. I americium blessed that it’s lone three. I retrieve erstwhile it happened connected the sets of Highway. We were shooting connected the agrarian road with Randeep and Alia and determination were nary due vanity vans backmost successful 2013. Alia had to change, spell for nature’s telephone successful different, antithetic places. Once I had to nonstop this feline backmost from the acceptable erstwhile helium was trying to beryllium astir her during that time. So yes, it did hap with maine arsenic a filmmaker thrice, but not anymore. Times person changed, changed drastically. Actresses are truly harmless connected the sets. It’s not similar that anymore,” Imtiaz said.

In her criticism, posted connected societal media, Vinta Nanda had written, “Imtiaz Ali should halt pontificating astir what women look successful the amusement industry. Naturally, a Kareena Kapoor is harmless due to the fact that she is privileged. And, helium surely indispensable cognize that the casting sofa exists! Why has IFFI Goa selected him to talk connected behalf of women? Is it to whitewash the truth? If men similar him had the courtesy to abstain from speaking o a taxable they person nary acquisition about, 1 volition judge that alteration is so taking place.”