New Delhi: Veteran Bollywood actress Ratna Pathak Shah in a recent interview with Pinkvilla, said that India ‘is becoming extremely conservative’, ‘superstitious’ and might become ‘like Saudi Arabia’.
She said that nothing has changed for women, or maybe very little has changed in very crucial areas.
Ratna Pathak further said that our society is becoming extremely conservative.
“We’re becoming superstitious, we’re being forced into accepting and making religion a very important part of one’s life,” she said.
Sharing her experience, she said, “Someone asked me for the first time last year if I’m keeping ‘karwa chauth ka vrat (observing karwa chauth)’. I replied, ‘Am I mad?'”
‘Modern women doing Karwa Chauth appalling’
Talking about modern women in our society, she said that “Isn’t it appalling that modern educated women do karwa chauth, praying for the lives of husbands so that they can have some validity in life?
She further said that, “A widow in the Indian context is a horrible situation, isn’t it? So anything that keeps me away from widowhood. Really? In the 21st century, we are talking like this? Educated women are doing this.”
“Isn’t it appalling that modern, educated women do #KarwaChauth…हम लोग सऊदी अरेबिया बनना चाहते हैं क्या?”
– says Actor Naseeruddin Shah’s wife Ratna Pathak Shah in an Interview. Netizens question her silence on women issues like Teen Talaq & Burqa.
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What’s the scope of women in Saudi Arabia?
‘Lipstick Under My Burqa’ actress further stated that, “Look at all the conservative societies in this world. Women are the ones who are most affected. What’s the scope of women in Saudi Arabia? Do we want to become like Saudi Arabia? And we will become because it’s very very convenient. Women provide a lot of unpaid labour within the home. If you have to pay for that labour, who will do it? Women are forced into that situation.”
On the work front, she was last seen in Yash Raj Film’s ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ alongside Ranveer Singh, Boman Irani and Shalini Pandey.