When veteran actor Annu Kapoor gave a comment about the physique of the actress Tamannaah Bhatia in one of the recent interviews, he was caught in the midst of a huge social media hurricane. The comment made in reference to her dancing number called Aaj Ki Raat, in which she had mentioned her milky body, led to a lot of outrage on the internet. The netizens were fast to condemn the actor calling his words as disrespectful, cheap and derogatory towards the actress. The scandal quickly escalated, as the users of different platforms called on the actor to apologize and they wanted to understand why the veteran actor used those words.
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After the bitter backlash, Annu Kapoor apologized, trying to overcome the situation. He made it clear that he made the controversial comment on Tamannaah Bhatia as a mere joke. The actor admitted that his words were a great response but did not mean to demean or disrespect both actresses and women. He encouraged human beings not to blow the comment out of proportion but it was just a humour that had been lost in the emotions of the moment. Tamannaah Bhatia has not yet issued any formal statement over the scandal or the apology given by Annu Kapoor.
Kapoor then commented on age as he told that even a woman of 70 years can be a child and joked how Tamannaah, with her voice, body and face, puts children to sleep.
According to this, a lot of users complained that this kind of speculation about the body of a woman was offensive, disrespectful, and unwelcome as a senior figure in the population. One of the users commented, Be respectful. You do not have a daughter or a grand-child? The other words used to refer to the comments include tharki vibes, vulgar, and tone-deaf.
The backlash was swift. The users of social media wanted Kapoor to accept the blunder and be sensitive in his public pronouncements. It was noted that despite the fact that it seems that it was a joke, the comments that sexualized or objectified women are a part of wider trends of disrespect in the discourse.
As a reaction, Annu Kapoor, who made the comments, apologized and said that it was a joke and he was by no means trying to offend anybody. A detailed text of the apology had not been made publicly available as of yet.
The episode has sparked new discussions on how public personalities, especially the senior, should be held responsible on the way they talk about women. Some claim that even in a casual remark, the sentence has a weight, promotes stereotypes of gender and can be quite harmful.
