Vivek Agnihotri tweets and ask Swara to get raped during a Twitter war between them

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Padmaavat was initially titled as Padmavati and was decided to release on December 1, 2017. But due to continuous opposition by Karni Sena and ban by various state governments, the movie was shifted to January 25 and was named as Padmaavat. The movie has now been released.

Thank uuuuuu @sonamakapoor for this lovely #traditional #paithhani sari.. Ive saved up this special birthday gift for a special occasion.. my dear friend @jayantsomalkar ‘s #veereydiwedding reception.. thank uuu @rupacj for creating this look ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/iMLqyOKQgZ

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 8, 2018

But after the release Bollywood talented actress, Swara Bhaskar called director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for the glorification of sati and jauhar in his film, Padmaavat, in an open letter published in The Wire on Saturday. She took offence to the film’s finale in which Rani Padmavati commits herself to fire to protect her honour. Here are the points she raised:

Women have the right to live, despite being raped sir.Women have the right to live, despite the death of their husbands, male protectors, owners, controllers of their sexuality.. whatever you understand the men to be.

Women have the right to live — independent of whether men are living or not.

Women have the right to live. Period.

Women are not only walking talking vaginas.

Yes, women have vaginas, but they have more to them as well. So their whole life need not be focused on the vagina, and controlling it, protecting it, maintaining it’s purity. (Maybe in the 13th century that was the case, but in the 21st century we do not need to subscribe to these limiting ideas. We certainly do not need to glorify them. )

It would be nice if the vaginas are respected; but in the unfortunate case that they are not, a woman can continue to live. She need not be punished with death, because another person disrespected her vagina without her consent.

There is life outside the vagina, and so there can be life after rape. (I know I repeat, but this point can never be stressed enough.)

She appreciated that the movie is historical in nature in Bhansali’s defense. But she also wrote, “The context of your film is India in the 21st century; where five years ago, a girl was gang-raped brutally in the country’s capital inside a moving bus,”.

But thsi letter from Swara Bhaskar and one who is consistently battling with her is Vivek Agnihotri.

Here is the tweet war:

First tweet by Swara and the article in the tweet holds the letter she wrote to SLB.

I loved the performances by all the actors in #Padmaavat – The film is seductive in its grandeur, scale, beauty, power of its actors’s performances, music, design, vision… and therein lies the problem! Some thoughts.. sorry abt the length https://t.co/0hYnvlAvAD

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 27, 2018

Funny that people cannot get over the fact that a woman said Vagina! Funny that in a 2440 word article making fairly comprehensible arguments they only remember the word Vagina!!! So… Vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina……………vagina vagina VAGINA!!!!! https://t.co/pVh7rskZHL

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 28, 2018

This is how you piss off people and stereotype the feminist movement. This is exactly why common people hate fake feminists. But you must know that the the true feminists have been working tirelessly for decades for women’s empowerment without ever mentioning vagina even once. https://t.co/en5Rf1cOXw

— Vivek Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) January 29, 2018

We have interviewed many ‘ex-naxal’ women in Bastar. Each has gut-wrenching stories to tell, full of abuse, rape and misogyny If they marry, they aren’t allowed to have children. I think fake feminist @ReallySwara must make a trip to understand how the Real Vagina feels like.

— Vivek Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) January 30, 2018

I’m sorry did u just suggest that i go get myself raped?????????? Like seriously? You typed out this tweet Vivek… ?????
I’d say pretty low and sick even by your own abysmal standards of conduct & civility. https://t.co/d1LCCE9B5I

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 30, 2018

Why is it that whenever we talk about empathy and understanding, fake feminists like @ReallySwara can only think of rape? You can say whatever you want, they end up translating it only with their sexually perverted dictionary. https://t.co/go6sjFR1PR

— Vivek Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) January 31, 2018

Let see what happens next.

Published by Ashish Mishra on 31 Jan 2018