Aamir Khan speaks about masculinity in India

• Posted by sujana g April 24, 2015 - Filed in Bollywood - #  #Aamir Khan  #speaks  #masculinity in India  - 692 views

  Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan is known to lent his voice on latest issue which grapples Indians which is against women.

  Khan said, "Rape is a big issue in India" while in "Tackling India's Taboos".  

  

  Khan added, "The balance of power in India needs to change. Unless conviction becomes swift and certain, things are not going to change in India. And very very importantly, as a society we have to shun the rapist and hold the survivor close".

  He said, "Is a real man someone who goes and beats up people, is a real man a person who is the protector... Unless we re-look at and hopefully re-define what a man is, things are not going to change". 

  He added, "A boy grows up feeling that I'm not supposed to cry. When you tell a child not to cry, you are removing him further and further away from his emotions... And then you are surprised why he is beating up his wife."

  He told, "Based on all of these definitions of what a real man is, I'm completely not a real man because I hold my wife's hand all the time, hug my children and I cry all the time".

  He concluded, "The fact that (the show) is so popular really speaks well for us as Indians today, that we have issues, we have problems but we want to leave them behind, we want to come out of them and we really want to go ahead and improve ourselves".

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