Actor Tamannaah Bhatia did a couple of intimate scenes in ‘Lust Stories 2’ and her segment featured Vijay Varma too. However, the actress is now facing “stark” misogynistic comments due to the same. Mentioning how viewers are quick to judge the morality of a female actor while male actors become “superstars”, Tamannaah certainly minced no words.
During an interview with journalist Barkha Dutt for Mojo Story, Tamannaah said, “The misogyny is so stark in my face. I was hoping by 2023 that would not be the case, but this time around it felt really stark, primarily because when I started being an actor and I was really young, I was still dancing and looking glamorous. So it’s not that I have had a non glamorous image and now all of a sudden it is turned into something. I just found it strange that even in 2023, why does a female actor need to have this definition… Like if she is doing intimate scenes, it is a personal attack.
“I have seen men do it all the time, play abusive characters, do violence and probably all kinds of things that are illegal, but they become superstars. But an actress, all of a sudden, has a bad character. Which makes no sense, I can’t wrap my head around it,” she added.
Tamannaah revealed that after a career of nearly two decades, she wanted to shake things up a bit. She mentioned how after doing all kinds of commercial films “one hit after another”, she “came to a point where I had to grow as an artist.”
Talking about the kinds of comments coming her way, she said, “I have read stuff like, ‘Isko kya majboori hai ki ye aise scenes kar rahi hai (What was her helplessness to do intimate scenes like these)’. I found that strange because if tomorrow I play a serial killer, will that make me a bad person?”
Lastly, when asked if playing a sexual persona on-screen lets her morality be judged, Tamannaah signed off by saying, “If it wasn’t for that one physical need, none of us would be here. Also, look at our population, so clearly that’s not an issue.”
