Veteran Bollywood screenwriter Javed Akhtar has criticized 'Animal' by finding fault with the scene where Ranbir Kapoor's character asks Tripti Dimri's character to lick his shoe. "If there is a film in which a man asks a woman to lick his shoe or if a man says it's okay to slap a woman, and if the film is a super duper hit, then that's very dangerous," Akhtar said on Saturday.
On Sunday, the official Twitter handle of 'Animal' slammed the acclaimed writer for his views. "If a writer of your calibre cannot understand the betrayal of a lover, then all your art form is big FALSE. If a woman (betrayed and fooled by a man in the name of love) would have said 'Lick my shoe', then you guys would have celebrated it by calling it feminism," the handle said. "Let love be free from the politics of gender. Let's just call them lovers. A LOVER cheated and lied. A LOVER said lick my shoe. Period," it added.
The tone of the rebuttal is disrespectful. Javed Akhtar is a legendary screenwriter and there are no two ways about it. Telling such a creative person that his art form is a sham is the height of arrogance. Sandeep Reddy Vanga, please shut up for a few months! Thanks in advance!!
