Complaint filed against Sanjay Dutt, Rajkumar Hirani for disrespecting sex workers

A official complaint has been filed against Sanjay Dutt, Anushka Sharma and Rajkumar Hirani for allegedly disrespecting sex-workers in their film ‘Sanju’. Even as the movie is gearing up for release, the National Commission for Women today received a complaint against the movie Sanju for allegedly making derogatory remarks against sex workers in the film, the Commission chairperson said today.

The complaint, filed just two days before its release, against the film has alleged that actors Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and director Rajkumar Hirani used derogatory language against sex workers. “We have received such a complaint and we are forwarding it to the Electronic Media Monitoring Centre to take necessary action,” said NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma.

The EMMC under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has been tasked to monitor the content of television channels and report on violations of the programme and advertising code. The complaint filed by advocate and social activist Gaurav Gulati was referred to two dialogues where Kapoor allegedly “demeans the status of sex workers in the society.”

‘Sanju’ is a film based on the life of actor Sanjay Dutt. Anushka Sharma is a playing a journalist who is tracing Sanjay Dutt’s life. At one point, she asks Sanjay about his sex life and how many women he has been with in the past. To which he says, “308 without counting the prostitutes.”

Previously a complaint was filed against the film with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Filed by activist Prithvi Mhaske, the complaint has raised an objection on the “toilet leakage scene in the barrack of jail picturised in the movie”.

The complaint addressed to Prasoon Joshi, Chairman (CBFC) and the makers of the film and Ranbir Kapoor had stated that the government takes good care of all the barracks and an incident like this was never heard of.

“In the trailer of the movie we have seen a scene that Sanjay Dutt was in such a barrack of a jail in which the toilet overflowed. According to the information available, the government and jail authorities are taking good care of all the barracks. We never heard any such incidents anywhere. Earlier as well many movies were released based on the gangsters where in the jails were covered, but never had seen such incidents. This particular scene will make a bad impression about the jails and jails authorities of the Indians,” it read.