{"id":35402,"date":"2018-06-27T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35402"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:15:41","slug":"mallika-sherawat-i-want-to-be-the-voice-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mallika-sherawat-i-want-to-be-the-voice-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallika Sherawat: I want to be the voice for women"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mallika Sherawat is bold, fearless and outspoken. The actress, who works closely with an organisation that fights against human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, says she wants to be the voice of women who don\u2019t have one and that activism is important for her. Mallika was teargassed and beaten up in her Paris apartment in 2016. She also had to deal with a crazy terrible stalker. When asked about whether she fears for her life, she replied, \u201cI can\u2019t stop living my life. What\u2019s good if I don\u2019t get to use my voice for the cause that I believe in? I believe in women empowerment and to be the voice for women who don\u2019t have a voice. I get mails from Haryana\u2026 from women saying, \u2018Show us the way\u2019. They want to make something of their life. My activism is very important to me,\u201d Mallika told IANS.<\/div>\n
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The Murder actor wants to inspire women across the country through her story of facing her stalker in ZEE5\u2019s anthology series, The Story. Talking about the episode of the digital project, she said, \u201cIt was kind of reliving the nightmare, but it was important for me to speak up about the experience. In India, a lot of people think that the life of a famous person is very simple\u2026 but actually, it\u2019s not. We all have our own challenges and problems. I had this crazy, terrible stalker. Also, what\u2019s happening in India right now with all these gang rape cases\u2026 there is a need to take self-defence seriously.\u201d Recalling the incident, Mallika said, \u201cThis took place a few years ago in Mumbai. This crazy guy was against the idea of me wearing short skirts. He said \u2018You are going against your culture. Women like you should be put behind bars\u2019. My clothes were an obsession for him. He just couldn\u2019t believe that a girl from Haryana could wear short skirts and that too on screen. I know that regressive mentality towards women exists, but I didn\u2019t know that it could go this far. I think, for him, it was like, \u2018I am going to set her right. I am going to teach her the value of wearing a sari\u2019. He even had a gun with him. I talk about women\u2019s rights. He just didn\u2019t want me to speak. He hated what I stood for-independent, modern Indian women. That guy was put behind bars.\u201d She is positive that the audience, especially women, will relate to it because a lot of women are facing harassment at work and at home. \u201cI have faced harassment. It is a very common thing with women,\u201d she said.Mallika has also got the rights to adapt The Good Wife, an American legal and political drama TV series, for Indian audiences. \u201cAgain, it is a women\u2019s empowerment show. By the end of this year, we will start shooting for it. I will play the central character. It will be shot in India in Hindi. I am really excited to share it with the Indian audience. I think the time is right,\u201d added the actress, who featured in the American show Hawaii Five-0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mallika Sherawat is bold, fearless and outspoken. The actress, who works closely with an organisation that fights against human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children, says she wants to be the voice of women who don\u2019t have one and that activism is important for her. Mallika was teargassed and beaten up in her Paris […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35404,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions\/35404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}