It will take only an ignorant to forget the date in history “16th December 2012”, perhaps I’ll be the last person to forget this day as long as I am breathing, Yes I was born on this day and this comes as a birthday for me every year until 2012 crossed, the meaning for this day got altered in very saddening way. Not to mention Nirbhaya got justice, still it left a mark in my thoughts which I think will be very difficult to erase as”being a woman”from my life.
Acting and reality holds massive differences, yet our Bollywood actors chose to talk about the feelings they go through while shooting rape scenes and the molestation they have gone through. Talking with film critic Rajeev Masand here are few excerpts:
“I was going through depression when I shot the molesting scene in NH10. But at the time you want it to be real. Especially in films like NH10 where you don’t know where the camera is you have to make it realistic”. Anushka Sharma,
“that time I was fine but I was emotionally very low after the next two days…being punched and kicked in stomach and all that, I was just thinking how humans can be this way. We aren’t exposed to all this in life other than reading newspaper. But to shoot such scenes are extremely traumatizing,”.
Alia Bhatt too shared this scene of her hit movie “Udta Punjab” where her character was gang raped, on sets you want to be like technical about it. You come here, then this happens, then we’ll do that and I’ll scream…so the face is like” yeah I am okay with it, I am alright with it because I am acting”, but what actually happens inside is ” I want this scene to get over. I just want this whole thing to get over”.
She adds further how she feared going to the set,” this has never happened to me but still I dread that walk while getting out of my room and I used to love the walk to my room everyday back everyday. Even though I loved my work it was strange to be in such situation, but what was even more weird was pretending to be cool on the set”,
While spoken this, Sonam had her molestation story which was not acting but real says she remember that incident pretty clearly it was the time she with her few friends went for a movie when she was 10-12 years old,
” a man came from behind and just held my breast like that and obviously I didn’t had breast at that time. I started shaking and shivering and I didn’t know what was going on and I started crying right there. I didn’t speak about it, instead sat there and finished watching my film because I felt that I had done something wrong for the longest time”.