In this context, it is particularly worrisome how many of the recent blockbuster movies popularise stalking myths. In a sensational case from Australia in 2015, an Indian man, Sandesh Baliga, accused of stalking two women in Tasmania, successfully argued that he believed the patient pursuit of a woman would make her fall in love with him since that’s what he’d seen in Bollywood films. Education-entertainment harnesses the power of the media to impact people’s attitudes as a part of behaviour change communication. If the makers of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha feel that the movie has a strong message against open defecation, can one assume its message is as much about making stalking normal and even a preferred way of wooing a woman? Specifically, a movie like this one is more than ‘entertainment’, it is Entertainment-Education. The casual manner in which stalking is often portrayed on screen raises alarming questions. The lack of diligent law enforcement is evident in these horrific stalking crimes. But the crime is punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term up to three to five years.
It has been four years since stalking was recognised as a form of violence against women under IPC Section 354D. Yet, these figures likely do not capture the entire scale and horror of stalking. The media is rife with shocking stories of stalkers raping their victims, burning them alive, hurting them physically.Īccording to the National Crime Records Bureau, the number of stalking cases in 2015 was 6,266. But what do the real gut-wrenching stories of stalking point to?Ĭan we ever recover from the horror that gripped us as we watched the visceral CCTV footage of a stalker repeatedly stabbing a young Delhi school teacher with a pair of scissors before smashing her head with a stone? Many acid attack victims have disturbing personal narratives of how the rejection of a stalkers’ advances resulted in their disfigurement and condemned them to a life of trauma and suffering. How could Bollywood get wooing so wrong? For far too long, Bollywood songs and movies have shown wooing by the stalker-lover as romantic and mostly successful in melting the heart of the woman. The song, ‘ hans mat pagli‘ has Akshay Kumar stalking a distressed Bhumi Pednekar, following her on a motorcycle and hideously clicking her pictures.Ī still from the song ‘ Hans Mat Pagli’ of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. Apart from the rabid sexism embedded in many songs, even a movie like Toilet: Ek Prem Katha inspired by the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has a proper ‘stalking song’. For instance, ‘ tu hi lage sohni tenu mari jawa line main….boyfriend bana le’, goes a song from the upcoming movie, Mubarakan, which shows Arjun Kapoor chasing Illeana D’Cruz, or ‘ tune English mein jab humko daanta, toh aashiq surrender hua pyar se maara galon pe chanta toh aashiq surrender hua‘, from Badrinath ki Dulhaniya, with Varun Dhawan chasing an uninterested Alia Bhatt. The songs appear to normalise and romanticise stalking.
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Many popular Bollywood films are full of double entendre and misogyny. With these images in mind, watching the songs that play on television these days can induce revulsion. In another incident, on July 15, a 17-year-old girl was doused with kerosene by a stalker inside her house in Kottayam, Kerala. She was stalked for many months and had registered a police complaint against the man. Her journey was abruptly cut short by a stalker who brutally stabbed her to death in broad daylight in New Delhi’s Shahdara on July 5, 2017. Credit: YouTubeĪn effervescent Riya Gautam, all of 21 years, dreamed of flying the skies as an air hostess. Stills from Badrinath ki Dulhania, Raanjhanaa and Darr.
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