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Actresses should make informed choices on item numbers: Shabana
Kolkata, Jan 25
Veteran actress-social
activist Shabana Azmi Sunday said actresses should make "informed"
choices on accepting item numbers as such sequences lead to
sexualisation of children.
"I am saying let it be an informed
decision. I am not going to dictate this is what you should do. But be
aware that when you do a song like that it is leading to the
sexualisation of children and there are four-year-old girls dancing at
all kinds of weddings to really really bad songs.
"So be vigilant
of the fact that this is leading to the sexualisation of children and
if this is something that you would like to do... make your own choice
but make sure it is an informed choice," she said at a special session
of the Kolkata Literary Meet here to a query on responsibility of
actresses while doing item numbers.
Shabana also batted for
"self-regulation" on part of the film industry but also stressed one
can't surrender to the moral brigade.
"Self-regulation is very
important for the film industry. It is a very thin ice because if you
start saying this is wrong... this item number is wrong then tomorrow
the moral brigade will say don't wear this... don't do this. You can't
surrender to the moral brigade... so whatever comes must come from
yourself... ," she added.