Mumbai: Pati Patni Aur Woh starrer Kartik Aaryan revealed that the heavily criticised sequence about marital rape has been modified.
The sequence which hurt the sentiments of the people, featuring Kartik Aaryan and Aparshakti Khurrana, shows the former ranting against women, saying, "Biwi se sex maang lein, toh hum bhikaari. Biwi ko sex mana kar dein, toh hum atyachaari aur kisi tarah jugaad laga ke uss se sex haasil kar lein na toh balaatkaari bhi hum hain."
After the release of the trailer, Twitterati expressed their contempt over it. In a recent interview, Kartik was asked about the criticism, he said, "This dialogue got highlighted and we didn’t realise it when we were doing it. We had shown it to a lot of people, but no one had pointed it out. We didn’t want to hurt anyone’s sentiments. This isn’t the topic of our film nor was this our intention."
"When the trailer came, we realised that we shouldn’t hurt anyone and should remove it immediately. Usually, this doesn’t happen in films. We took responsibility because it might have come across as something that wasn’t our intention. We realised we shouldn’t have used that word at all. We have rectified it and made changes because we don’t want to hurt people’s sentiments," he said.
Later, the director Mudassar Aziz slammed the outrage on social media against the sequence. He said that people have started reacting without even understanding its context. He pointed out that the word "balatkari" has been edited from the sequence.
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"A lot of people said the dialogue insinuated that marital rape is ok. What’s the line? A man seems to be saying ‘If I do this I’m called this if I do that I’m called this also.’ Ninety-nine percent of men in the country do not even know when they are committing marital rape. Coming back home after work and waking up a sleeping wife, even if you indulge in foreplay, that’s not consent. A filmmaker presents that line in a film, everyone starts to tell him to remove that word from the film. We have reached a stage where a 12-year-old needs to know what rape is. If you are not going to say 'balatkar', no one’s going to understand what it is," said Mudassar.
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The director added, "It was very unfortunate that the word has had to be replaced. It is unfortunate because I maintain my stand that even a 12-year-old needs to know what rape is. The act is wrong, but if you are not going to talk about it, if they aren’t going to know what the term stands for, you are going to be a generation that’s unaware. Don’t stop the word, stop the act."
