Bhubaneswar: The Film Federation of India (FFI) has irked film enthusiasts and social media users across the globe for referring to Indian women as a ‘strange mixture of submission and dominance.’
While announcing the nomination of Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ to the Oscars 2005 on Monday, FFI cited, “Indian women are a strange mixture of submission and dominance. Well-defined, powerful characters in one world a LAAPATAA LADIES (Hindi) captures this diversity perfectly, though in a semi-idyllic world and in a tongue-in-cheek way. It shows you that women can happily desire to be home makers as well as rebel and be entrepreneurially inclined. A story that can simultaneously be seen as one that needs change, and one that can bring about change. Laapataa Ladies (Hindi) is a film that can engage, entertain and make sense not just to women in India but universally as well.”
However, this citation didn’t seem to go down well with movie buffs and social media users, who took to social media platforms to reprimand FFI for its so-called ‘sexist’ remark on ‘Laapataa Ladies’.
“It’s an atrocious statement. Complete disaster,” wrote an X user.
A Reddit user wrote, “That submission note is sooo badly written. A semi competent school kid will be able to write a way better note than that.”
“Dude who came up with “strange mix of submission and dominance” has definitely never had a girlfriend in his life,” joked another Reddit user.
Fans also pointed out several grammatical and spelling errors in this citation.
“Cannot comprehend that the first word itself is spelled wrong lol,” wrote one.
“They should’ve just used ChatGPT,” added another.
