Our Take on Radhika Apte's Unblushed Video


BENGALURU: Radhika Apte’s short video which was released on April 20th titled ‘Find Your Beautiful’ aims to instill a sense of self esteem in women. Hosted by the Youtube channel ‘Blushed’ who has been releasing similar themed clips, for its ‘UNBLUSHED’ series which previously featured Aditi Rao, Kalki Koechlin. Though targeted towards lifestyle and entertainment channel for women, the channel appears to hold a tinge of light feminism (*wears protective gear*)

Unblushed apparently means to go shameless and here is our unblushed take on it.

The title ‘Find your beautiful’ is encouraging. Apte finds an old childhood picture of hers and we have yet another person who’d wish the capability for time travel. Who doesn’t? As per multi dimension theory in quantum mechanics, it is really not necessary, coz there is parallel running all versions of everyone in all possible combination (ugly to tall to beautiful to tragedy to elite success to suicide). One can just not see it as humans have to confine their senses to the 4th dimension. Nerdy jokes apart and coming to reality, what does James Blunt and Radhika Apte have in common? They are the very few people who told me I’m beautiful. Nonetheless, that is a sentence anyone would want to hear. So thank you and same to you.

She states good point when she says (in Hindi Originally), “You are never too short or tall, it all depends on how confidently you carry yourself.” And “Your body is beautiful. It will change, get moody and will give you lots of chances to live your life fully.” And “Your skin color is not a shade card that decides your happiness.”

But all that positive build up is destroyed (when you think with logic alongside watching the video) when she says, “When you will grow up people will say you are not a well behaved Indian girl. Ask them to first define ‘well-behaved’, ‘Indian’ or even ‘Girl’.” Go ahead, do that and see what happens. When people ‘say’ they are either remarking out of bad intend or advising for your good. In fact in either case you’d not need to ask them anything or sometime you’d have to. You are not entirely well behaved even if your ways of life don’t hurt anyone else (not pointing to religion or sexuality).

“Break rules and live those amazing moments.” What do you mean Radhika Apte? The video depicts a couple, about break rule. Does not make sense, ‘no getting intimate (nor kissing)’ is not a rule, but neither is it a rule. Those are choices. And dear RA, do you have any idea of the number of girls getting violated in our country? Why did you have to take the pride in promoting such a minutely sensible idea? You should have added some part indicating the importance of staying cautions that reflects wellbeing, and would’ve been way better than negligent empowerment.

You simply don’t get it do you RA? Despite that fact that some kind soul was violated and viralized in your name and despite that fact that a footage of yours from a short film had been leaked surpassing security measures and policies, you’ve failed to even hint about staying safe which would apparently require following advice, rethinking on criticism and being considerate about being ‘a girl’.

“Break away from your fears and do something that scares you the most.” And “Never stop believing that you are beautiful.” Totally agree but being beautiful does not mean snapping portraits of body parts, does it? Studies point that taking too much selfies could be a sort of mental disorder.  But we’ll let it pass.

We know it’s not entirely your fault RA, and we salute you for your approach against the false controversies that you were subject to. Now would be a good time to refine the crew of the channel, especially the script development team.

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