Celebrating Shoojit Sircar’s feminist film Pink, actor Amitabh Bachchan tweeted out a photo to mark the occasion with the team. Except, the photo only had men in it. The actor’s photo even had the caption: “PINK…all in one frame”.
T 2549 – The team of ‘PINK’ .. all in one frame .. and .. ALL, independent, individual .. NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS !!? pic.twitter.com/uQV55nUQsO
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) September 16, 2017
Twitterati were curious about where the women were.
Can’t see those three girls who lived independently, how they face society, how they face their morals. Pl repost with their pics too, sir
— rahul verma (@rahulverma08) September 16, 2017
Sir this pic.is incomplete without d female actors since movie centred around them.They were the lead actors in d film with due respect ??
— varun mehra (@varunmehra) September 16, 2017
PINK girls Missing in the picture.
Though a wonderful pic— Arth Vaishnav •EF• (@ArthVaishnav) September 16, 2017
A national award winning film about women’s dignity and rights but the celebration above has only meṅ in the frame. Wrong messaging sir
— Monica Jasuja (@jasuja) September 17, 2017
BC WHERE ARE THE WOMEN
— Salar (@smbijili) September 18, 2017
Where are the Girls ? Who made the characters memorable, they are not in the Team?
— pramod k nair (@pramodknair1) September 16, 2017
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
The actor drew flak for promoting the film with just the men in frame. However, this isn’t the first time the veteran actor displayed subtle misogyny. Last week, Bachchan said that he was happy that women are now working harder than men on set.
“A great delight to find so many women on set working harder than the men, in a job which one could never have dreamt about in our times,” he wrote in his blog while filming for Thugs Of Hindostan.