A few excerpts from the Jaipur Literature Fest session 'Sex and sensibility: Women in Cinema' with Prasoon

Joshi and Shabana Azmi. A must read. And a reason for why should you visit the Jaipur Literature Festival, because its much more than Coffee with Karan. "We cannot let the society go scot-free. We have a shared responsibility with the one who is creating it... when you type on Youtube 'best rape scenes; you get a collection of rape scenes. Who is watching them? Where are millions of hits coming from? When there are three or four people, you can call them perverts or psychopaths, but when they are in millions, they are amongst us. We are as much to blame, to consume and repeatedly consume these things" ~ Prasoon Joshi There is a difference between the celebration of a woman's sensuality and sexuality and commdifying her... when you have fragmented images of a woman's bodyof a heaving bosom, of a swiveling navel, of a swinging hipfragmented imagesyou rob the woman of all autonomy and make her surrender to the male gaze. ~ Shabana Azmi Why do you celebrate motherhood so much- " ". because the society is scared of her ,

individuality. The moment she becomes a mother you've controlled her... " her a pseudo sense of satisfaction. And that what reflects in our cinema as well. ~ Prasoon Joshi We say or

." Society has been glorifying motherhood far too much, as if its the end of everything, and giving

. Look at the aashirwaad we use:

. its only about the boy. Krishna steals gopis clothes. And we say is

celebration of sexuality. Who knows whether the Gopis are enjoying it or not! Who decides? The male painter decides to show the gopis happy. But its a male painter again. Its the male dominated society. Its written from male point of view. You have internalized it. We have internalized it, thinking that its the truth. ~ Prasoon Joshi