Kriti Sanon: My choli became a six-person news debate
Kriti Sanon opened up on What Women Want about the choli controversy, online hate and why women shouldn't have to justify their fashion choices.
Kriti Sanon is used to keeping quiet when the internet has opinions. But on Kareena Kapoor Khan’s show What Women Want, she explained why one recent outfit became the exception — and turned a personal fashion choice into a larger conversation about gender inequality.
When a blouse becomes a headline
The actor said a choli she wore in a recent advertisement spilled from social media into mainstream news, where it became what she described as a “six-people panel discussion on prime-time news.” She told Kareena she couldn’t believe the story had travelled that far.
“I don’t pay attention to any of the trolls,” Kriti said, describing her usual approach. “I don’t feel like I need to justify anything because I don’t want to give them that attention.” But this time, she said, the scale of the reaction made her step out of that silence.
Why this time was different
Kriti was clear that her decision to speak up was not about one outfit. She said the backlash pointed to a bigger problem: women are scrutinised for the smallest things while men are not held to the same standard. Kareena agreed, adding that the choice of what to wear should belong to the person wearing it.
The list of judgments Kriti reeled off will feel familiar to most women who spend any time online:
- Too short or too tall
- Put on weight or looking too slim
- Pregnancy speculation, or questions about what she ate
“It’s fine. It’s an opinion,” Kriti said of personal style. The problem, she argued, is when opinion turns into abuse.
No, she won’t turn off comments
Kriti also revealed that her sister suggested she disable comments to escape the noise. She refused. Her reasoning was simple: women should not have to disappear or limit themselves because strangers feel entitled to judge them.
“Who has given this right to these people to be commenting on us?” she asked. Kareena called Kriti’s stand “very, very brave,” and the younger actor did not shy away from naming what she sees underneath the trolling: patriarchy that is so deeply embedded it has to be challenged again and again.
For fans, a familiar pattern
Kriti said she knows she is not the only woman this happens to. Actors, she added, are easy targets, but the pattern reaches far beyond Bollywood. The conversation on What Women Want framed the issue as one of fairness: women should be able to make choices — wardrobe or otherwise — without having to explain them or absorb hate for them.
Source: bollywoodHungama.com
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