Taapsee Pannu Calls Out Her Film Running Shaadi's Writer Navjot Gulati For Making A 'Sexist' Comment About Screenwriters
Taapsee Pannu slams the writer of Running Shaadi, her own movie, for making a highly unpleasant remark about screenwriters. He suggested that to get top-billing as a screenwriter in trailers, they need to get married into a production house.
Navjyot Gulati, the man who wrote Running Shaadi and the more recently Ginny Weds Sunny, is getting called out by his Running Shaadi actress Taapsee Pannu. He suggested in a tweet that the way to get top-billing in a trailer for a screenwriter is to get married into a production house. This extremely unpleasant message didn't go unnoticed as Haseen Dilruba's screenwriter Kanika Dhillon slammed him for making such a comment while Taapsee called him out for his misogynistic remark.
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If you want top billing as a Screenwriter in a trailer(something that should be the norm)You need to marry into the production house. Once the Writer becomes a family member, is treated like an Actor-Star. #Goals
— Navjot Gulati (@Navjotalive) June 11, 2021
The reaction
And mr @Navjotalive because of writers like YOU - who display their STUPIDITY on something tht should be Applauded as a welcome step by the writing fraternity- other very deserving writers do not get top Billing as is their right—- shame on u! https://t.co/hDDhSlBEpS
— Kanika Dhillon (@KanikaDhillon) June 14, 2021
The impact
A progressive call to credit a writer turned into a sexist rant by the age old misogyny of crediting a woman’s success to the house she marries in or the man she married. Your righteous call for equal credit can’t be overtaken by the bitterness in u. https://t.co/B7FrdSRakL
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) June 14, 2021
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