In recent weeks, sexual harassment allegations have sprouted in Hollywood like youth leaders in Gujarat. At least this epidemic of exposing predatory behaviour in Hollywood is now being treated, even as it rightly transmits to other fields like the media and politics. Curiously enough, while Hollywood tries to inoculate itself against this virus, it doesn’t seem to have infected Mumbai. The larger picture of the hero as stalker, borderline sexual harasser, has played across cinemas for decades. If Hollywood is introspecting over the ugliness it hides behind its silver screens, its Mumbai cousin appears to have little interest in that conversation.

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 11:15 UTC