Filmmaker and poet Leena Manimekalai tore into the citation saying, ‘Tongue-in-cheek dedication to all women who can now happily desire to be home-makers as well as rebel and be entrepreneurially inclined’.
Chennai: The citation for Laapataa Ladies by the Film Federation of India’s all-male jury while nominating the box office hit to Oscars, which called Indian women as a “strange mixture of submission and dominance” has kicked up a storm with filmmakers and social media users saying it goes against the very idea of the movie.
“Indian women are a strange mixture of submission and dominance. Well-defined, powerful characters in one world, Laapataa Ladies (Hindi) captures this diversity perfectly, though in a semi-idyllic world and in a tongue-in-cheek way,” the citation read.
Filmmaker and poet Leena Manimekalai tore into the citation saying, “Tongue-in-cheek dedication to all women who can now happily desire to be home-makers as well as rebel and be entrepreneurially inclined!!!”
“Best jury citation ever read! Film Federation is what? Grand Patriarch wanting to wear jeans?” Manimekalai wrote on X.