Last week, Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon’s film Raabta joined the long list of Hindi films that have an unapologetically sexist and racist representation of the white woman. That a single white woman in the West, the archetypal gori is not to be trusted. So much so, Hindi films have routinely used the white woman as a trope to establish how the hero is waylaid by the West in all its hedonistic glory. This could also explain why, back in the country, white women have the worst kind of experiences while travelling solo or simply walking our streets. While sexual harassment in India is not exclusive to the white woman, Bollywood has definitely played its part in reinforcing a twisted stereotype.

Source: dna June 14, 2017 16:26 UTC