'Let's Not Normalise Misogyny’: Mumbai Police Calls Out Misogynist Scenes From Bollywood Films

In one of their recent tweets, Mumbai Police called out a few Bollywood movie dialogues and urged people to not normalise misogyny.

Mumbai Police Calls Out Misogynist Scenes From Bollywood (Image courtesy - @MumbaiPolice/Twitter)

New Delhi: In today’s world, social media is a great source of not only entertainment but also information and business. Almost everyone is active on social media these days, be it celebrities or brands or the mass. Mumbai Police is also active on social media and their posts and tweets are indeed very catchy and informative. The social media team of Mumbai Police also make sure to keep up with the trend.

In one of their recent tweets, Mumbai Police called out a few Bollywood movie dialogues and urged people to not normalise misogyny. In their tweet, Mumbai Police mentioned some dialogues from movies like ‘Kabir Singh’, ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, ‘Hum Tumhare Hai Sanam’ and others.

Sharing the post, Mumbai Police tweeted, “Cinema is a reflection of our society - Here are (just) a few (of many) dialogues both our society & cinema need to reflect upon. Choose your words & actions with care - unless you want the law to intervene! #LetsNotNormaliseMisogyny #MindYourLanguage #WomenSafety”

They shared another tweet calling out dialogues from ‘Dabbang’, ‘Chashme Baddoor’ and others. Take a look at the tweet here:

When a user called out Mumbai Police and asked them to focus more on other problems, Mumbai Police replied in a tweet, “With due respect to the need of addressing the other concerns you mentioned, misogyny seems to be a lesser problem in the nature of comparison you have drawn. Exactly the reason why #LetsNotNormaliseMisogyny needs to be reiterated as many times and in as many ways”.

Well, with the rising cases of molestation and harassment each passing day, it is important for us as a society to take a pause and check on what examples we are setting for the coming generations.

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