When Vidya Balan revealed her 'defence mechanism' against sexual harassment in Bollywood

Back in 2017, while promoting her movie Tumhari Sulu, Vidya Balan talked about sexual harassment and also mentioned her way to deal with with. More so, she also talked about her way to deal with workplace harassment. Vidya told PTI that "walking away" was her "defence mechanism."

When Vidya Balan revealed her defence mechanism

She further added, "I could walk away because I had a home to go back to. I had family, I had food on my plate and I had nothing to worry about. A lot of people have circumstances that are different. As a woman, you have the sixth sense and instinct. No one has asked me for a coffee. If I went to have coffee with someone, it was because I wanted to go. I felt it was below my dignity to get work in any other way. I don't judge others who had to use any sort of means as everyone's circumstances are different."

In the same interaction, Vidya Balan also opined that women avoid talking about sexual harassment out of fear of being judged. She remarked that women never had the courage to talk about sexual harassment as invariably the finger would be pointed back at them. "Which is why, I think whether sexual harassment or rape, women have always found it difficult to talk about it," she said. Not only this, but the actor also continued that sexual harassment is not limited to the entertainment industry alone and that it exists in every industry.

"Here (in entertainment industry) it gets written about. The film industry is a part of the society. Here it gets amplified and that is the only difference. In the West, it has happened to powerful and successful people and they did not do anything about it. So you think, I am not the only one (facing it). But people have started talking, revealing things," said Vidya Balan.

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