{"id":3877,"date":"2016-03-11T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T07:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2016-03-11T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T07:17:29","slug":"simmba-review-rohit-shetty-rape-ranveer-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3877","title":{"rendered":"Simmba Review: A Rohit Shetty Film That Will Make Every Woman Say, \u201cAata Majhi Satakli\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

R<\/span>ohit Shetty\u2019s <\/p>Simmba<\/em> stands out for making no attempt to mask the fact that it is supposedly a film about women empowerment \u2013 helmed by men who have no idea what the term really entails. It\u2019s the kind of film that believes that the only problem Indian women face in 2018 is feeling unsafe while returning home alone at night. And so Simbaa, inspired from the 2015 Telugu film, Temper,<\/em> proudly reduces the act of violence against women into a mere plot twist.\n\nThe film\u2019s plot is a staple of the Rohit Shetty Cinematic Universe (RSCU) \u2013 filled with flying cars and macho men \u2013 a world that is referenced unabashedly, just like statements such as \u201cRape hua, rape\u201d are invoked mercilessly throughout the 160-minute-long Simmba.<\/em> In the film, Simmba (Ranveer Singh), a police officer, endorses abject violence and takes the law in his hands. Just the way his godfather Ajay Devgn\u2019s Bajirao Singham in Singham<\/em> and Singham Returns<\/em> shoots the villain on his posterior to coerce a confession out of him.\n\nYet, unlike Singham<\/em>, the honest do-gooder, Simmba is an orphan who grows up to be a corrupt police officer. Because this is a Rohit Shetty<\/a> film, it\u2019s impossible for Simmba\u2019s change of heart to occur due to self-introspection. Instead, it\u2019s manufactured only after a 19-year-old woman is raped and killed. Simmba turns saviour within minutes: This is the same man who gets aggrieved when his colleague calls him out for being corrupt and says, \u201cYou\u2019re accusing me as if I\u2019ve raped someone.\u201d Just the hero Indian women need.\n\nIf anything, Simmba<\/em> continues Bollywood\u2019s tradition of letting women be helpless victims of violence, only so that male stars can double up as their saviours. Really, Bollywood? Is that the best you can do to cap a year where directors, actors, and filmmakers, were hit by solid #MeToo accusations?\n

There\u2019s only so much emotional intelligence you can expect from a director whose greatest cinematic achievement remains randomly blowing up cars.<\/blockquote>\nHindi cinema is, in fact, replete with vigilante rape dramas that confuse revenge with justice. Yet, a film like Simmba<\/em> is especially detrimental in the times we live in, because it panders to a bloodthirsty mob mentality that creates villains out of average people. It is completely unaware of context, and of the responsibility that tackling a sensitive subject like rape demands. (Even though it generously references PINK<\/em><\/a>, rape statistics, and the 2012 Delhi gang rape.)\n\nThere\u2019s evidence of it in the way Simmba<\/em> posits simplistic, blustery \u201csolutions\u201d to combat sexual assault. In one scene, a sub-inspector says that unless cops kill rapists, nothing will change. In another, Simmba claims that all of India believes that rapists should be killed. The most tone-deaf of these is when Simmba asks a group of women what punishment they\u2019d wish upon rapists: Their options revolve between death and castration. And in the film\u2019s rape scene, shots of the young woman being dragged by her assaulters is juxtaposed with a shot of Simmba, who is fast asleep. It\u2019s not hard to glean what it implies: The rape would have never happened had he been awake to save the day.\n\nI suppose, there\u2019s only so much emotional intelligence you can expect from a director whose greatest cinematic achievement remains randomly blowing up cars \u2013 which in itself is likely an homage to Michael Bay. But Rohit Shetty also knows exactly what he is doing with Simmba<\/em> \u2013 reducing rape to a buzzword in an exaggerated comedy to prove that the RSCU isn\u2019t all nonsensical. Even though Ranveer Singh, an actor who is the living embodiment of excess, almost elevates this testosterone-fuelled macho drivel into surprisingly entertaining fare. That is, until a woman is sacrificed for him to realise his true calling.\n\nIn fact, the most damning part of Simmba\u2019s<\/em> juvenile \u201crape is bad\u201d and \u201crespect women\u201d campaign is how it views women in the first place. Shagun (Sara Ali Khan<\/a>), the film\u2019s female lead has a total of five scenes, out of which two don\u2019t require her to speak at all. Shetty isn\u2019t even subtle in suggesting that men belong in offices and women in their kitchens, considering Shagun runs a catering business and is tasked with preparing a tiffin in a pivotal scene. The rest of the film\u2019s female characters are mute puppets, who get to be in the frame only when Simmba has to prove a point.\n\nEvery woman is only identified by the gender role she fulfils \u2013 she is either a mother, sister, wife, or a girlfriend. And it makes matters worse when the film suggests that sexual violence is bad only when your mother, sister, or wife is subjected to it. In a court scene, Simmba<\/em> tries to get a favourable outcome by suggesting to the woman judge that her daughter might get raped. In another scene, a daughter guilts her father into not suspending Simbaa for killing the rapists with a “Imagine, if I was the girl who was raped”. And in the film\u2019s most appalling scene, Simmba implies that the rapists in lock-up are impotent, inciting them to \u201cbrag\u201d about their rape skills so that he can shoot them point-blank.\n\nSo, yes. Simmba<\/em> does its bit to critique toxic masculinity \u2013 even if its own lead wears a toxic male pride only a shade softer. If Simmba<\/em> is Rohit Shetty\u2019s idea of what justice looks for women, I can only hope that we don\u2019t have to sit through a film that is his version of what equality looks like.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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