While most actors in Bollywood are coming in support of the ongoing #MeToo campaign, outing a number of sexual predators from the past, former Bigg Boss winner Shilpa Shinde has a totally different take on it.
Calling the whole thing ‘rubbish’ here is what Shilpa was quoted saying in a television interview:
“It’s rubbish. You have to take a call that time only, it’s simple. You should speak about that matter that time only. Even I got a lesson. Jab hota hai, tabhi bolo – baad mei bolne ka koi faayeda nahi, it’s useless. Baad mei aap voice raise karte ho, usko koi nahi sunega, just controversy hogi – nothing else. You have to take a call that time only when it happens and obviously, you need power.”
She further adds to her point:
“This industry is not bad and it’s not very good. Everywhere these things happen. I don’t know why khud hi industry ka naam kharaab kar rahe hai. So those who are working and they got work – sab hi log kharaab hai? Aisa nahi hai, it totally depends on you.”
Calling it a ‘give and take policy’, Shilpa insists that “no rape takes place in the industry” and the cases that are now being brought to light are a “mutual thing.”
Here is what she further said on the subject:
“Aapse saamne waala insaan kaise react karta hai, aap usko kaise answer karte ho. It’s totally a give and take policy. Women are speaking now but at that time also I said that there’s no rape in this industry – zabardasti nahi hota. (it’s not forced) Whatever has happened in our industry, it’s a mutual understanding. It’s a mutual thing. If you are not ready to do that, just leave that thing.”