Netizens School Ex-IPS Officer For Asking 'How Ranveer Allowed Deepika's Pathaan Song'

Protests have been staged in various parts of the country, alleging a community has been offended by the video of “Besharam Rang” from the yet-to-be-released movie ‘Pathaan’.

Joining the voice of dissent is a retired IPS officer who made bizarre and misogynistic remarks against Bollywood Actor Deepika Padukone.?

The retired IPS officer who made the sexist remark about Deepika Padukone and the "Besharam Rang" song from the SRK movie Pathaan has been strongly criticized on Twitter.

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The former officer uploaded many zoomed screengrabs of the actor from the video, stating,

"What kind of a husband allows or tolerates public molestation of his wife for a few bucks? Just asking !!! [sic]"

The misogynistic backlash to the song has been widely expressed on online platforms.

Netizens publicly ridiculed the former IPS official.

"1. She consented to these shots (not that you’d understand consent). It’s not molestation. However, what you’re doing in this post can be in the purview of harassment. 2. Ranveer is not answerable [sic] for Deepika’s choices and vice versa," one of them wrote.

Here are other reactions:

Prakash Raj and Onir, two well-known directors, have offered their voices in favor of the song.?

An enraged Onir replied to his tweet after the retired officer criticized Ranveer Singh for approving Deepika's orange bikini by saying:?

"Yucks .., sick mentality. Using words like ‘allows,’ and ‘ tolerate" shows that he belongs to that tribe of men who think a husband owns the woman. And only a vulgar mindset could make a montage like this. Retired and now nothing better to do than zoom in pics n spread hate."

Prakash Raj was among the first celebrities to support Deepika and SRK in the song controversy.

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He had called the controversy "Disgusting … How long should we tolerate these ..Colour Blind #AndhBhakts .. #justasking."

There have been demands to boycott the movie "Pathaan" since it became a contentious issue on social media.?

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Shah Rukh Khan weighed in on the dissenters at the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). He claimed that today's cinema was the single most influential art form.

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"Cinema and the advent of articulation through social media platforms have become the foremost expression of human experience and emotion. Social media shape the collective narrative of the time. Contrary to the belief that the spread of social media will affect cinema negatively, I believe cinema has an even more important role to play now. Social media is often driven by a certain narrowness of view that limits human nature."

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