Mumbai, Aug 26: Women need to feel safe at any odd hours or place and the onus on men to give them their space, says South star Vikram, who termed the recent incidents of crime against women in the country “disgusting”.
The 58-year-old actor’s remarks come in the wake of the alleged rape and murder of a female doctor in Kolkata and the Justice Hema Committee report on women’s exploitation in Malayalam cinema.
“All women need to feel protected. They should be able to walk the streets at 3.00 in the morning and feel they can walk, go home, and that nobody will do anything. That every man is there to protect them, to give them their space. It’s disgusting what’s happening,” Vikram told PTI.
The actor, whose Tamil film “Thangalaan” is releasing in North India with the Hindi version arriving in theatres on Friday, said he has often wondered about tackling the issue of women’s safety in his films.
“We get affected by most things that happen… I’ve always thought that if I was creative, would I address it more in my movies? Will I do something?” he said.
Vikram said perhaps inspiration needs to be drawn from “Thangalaan” director Pa Ranjith whose films’ recurrent theme is about changing the entire system.
“It’s something that I’m trying to figure out, ‘What do we do? What does the nation need to do? Do we start young? Do we start inculcating these things in children?’ As Pa Ranjith says, ‘Change the whole system and start from scratch’. I don’t know, something has to be done,” he added.
A postgraduate trainee woman doctor was allegedly raped and murdered in the seminar hall of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, following which a Kolkata Police civic volunteer was arrested. (PTI)
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