Anurag Kashyap has defended Yash’s upcoming movie, Poisonous, weeks after its first look teaser confronted backlash for a graphic intercourse scene. The filmmaker has mentioned the backlash revealed the society’s ‘cultural hypocrisy’ and mentioned that male actors go shirtless on a regular basis, however no one bats an eyelid.
Anurag Kashyap defends Poisonous teaser
Anurag appeared on the seventeenth Bengaluru Worldwide Movie Competition, the place he spoke about cinema, politics, and expertise in a session titled ‘Fearless Movie Making’, moderated by movie critic Baradwaj Rangan. Right here, Anurag talked in regards to the backlash Poisonous teaser acquired. Praising the movie as ‘an especially brave try’, the filmmaker mentioned, “The outrage expressed towards the teaser reveals our cultural hypocrisy. When male actors seem shirtless on display or show extreme machismo, nobody questions it. However when a girl celebrates her sexuality, it turns into laborious to simply accept.”
The backlash to Poisonous teaser
The teaser of Poisonous launched Yash’s character as he went on a rampage in a cemetery. However earlier than that, scenes confirmed a graphic intercourse scene in a van between the protagonist and an unnamed feminine actor. Many on-line mentioned the scene was pointless and criticised the makers for pandering to the male gaze. The feminine actor within the teaser, Beatriz Taufenbach, was pressured to delete her social media following the backlash. The Girls’s Fee additionally criticised the teaser.