Does Bollywood incite sexual violence in India?

Xtron · February 12, 2014, 2:31pm

Re: Does Bollywood incite sexual violence in India?

Agree with kakabali. It’s a combination of different factors and I do believe that Bollywood is partly to blame for the way society is conditioned to objectify women. The other factors, in my opinion, include the weak legal system, prevalence of bribe, no serious/long-term consequences (in most cases), attitude of law enforcement agents and politicians toward the rape victim (for seducing the rapist), lack of education at home about human rights/gender equality/anger management, everyday struggles that the common person faces and has no other outlets to take it out on, and a conservative society where single girls are afraid of getting pregnant and may resist intimacy with their boyfriend/fiance, etc.

Bollywood doesn’t promote or justify rape, but I think it awakens peoples’ sexuality and teases people with the idea of the bombshell babe they could be enjoying. Remember the movie Munna Bhai MBBS? Such a sweet, innocent movie, right? Remember the dying Muslim dude whose last wish was to have sex, and viola, then we have a call girl in the hospital who spends the night, no problem. Another gem of a song, dekh le aankhon main aankhen daal dekh le. And nope, she isn’t really talking about her eyes.

You can’t really compare Bollywood with those raunchy hollywood videos and say that if those don’t provoke people to commit a sin then bollywood shouldn’t be blamed either. Case in point, in western societies, there are real consequences of such a crime and while sex of all kinds is considered acceptable, everyone is taught about the importance of mutual consent and the age of consent. Plus, most people aren’t opposed to the idea of sex before marriage, so if one girl refuses, there is another one at the bar that you can try your luck with. So in that case then the videos alone are not as harmful as their counterparts in Bollywood are.

Thank you for the post!