Published 16:22 IST, July 23rd 2020

Janhvi Kapoor on casual sexism in Bollywood: 'It’s some sort of subliminal conditioning'

Rising star Janhvi Kapoor who is gearing up for her upcoming release Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl recently made some shocking revelation about showbiz world.

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Bollywood’s rising star Janhvi Kapoor who is currently gearing up for her upcoming biopic release Gunjan Saxena: Kargil Girl recently me some shocking revelations about showbiz world. actress who will be seen playing role of first Indian woman pilot in combat recently opened up to a leing publication about certain things that have bored her in entertainment industry. actress also reportedly spoke about comments that are dropped under a post which are mostly criticizing her looks.

Janhvi Kapoor's take on judgmental comments on social media 

Elucidating upon statement, actress reportedly explained situations where she felt director gives more weight to male le than actress. Janhvi said that she has felt this a lot of time before especially during meetings and script narrations when director makes more eye contact with male co-actor rar than actress. According to Janhvi, such kind of gestures make her feel that maybe male le has a longer role or scene which gives him worthy of such treatment. Later, actress reportedly said that she n realized fact that maybe it’s just some sort of subconscious feeling that s making director do so. 

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Apart from this, Janhvi even lashed out at hateful and abhorrent comments that are posted beneath post of stars especially female actors. As per reports, expressing herself, actress said that a lot of attention is paid on looks of stars and y are n judged very quickly on basis of ir appearance. t just this, actress reveals that kind of comments a girl gets for wearing her desired clos is also extreme. ding, furr, Janhvi said that kind of comments she gets on her social media posts regarding her dressing sense starting from her gym outfits to promotional ones are full of judgments.

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actress reportedly said that body has a right to question someone’s character based on clothing sense. Continuing, Dhak actress said that it is easier for people to say a few things that y feel that will t harm or affect dignity of women and that y can get away by simply commenting about same. At last, actress said that such demeaning comments would matter to a male person working in industry, but as a woman, she reportedly ds that if comments cross a certain limit n one should always stand against it and get vocal about it. 

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16:23 IST, July 23rd 2020