Social media users are praising Indian actress Tamannaah Bhatia for standing up to a filmmaker`s "sexist" comments.
Suraj, the director of her new film Kathi Sandai (The Sword Fight), said "audiences pay money to see heroines in full glamour" and he didn`t like to see them "fully clad in a sari".
Bhatia replied that actresses "are here to act" and they "should not at any point be objectified as commodities".
The director has apologised for his remarks about Bhatia.
He had said that people "should expect Tamannaah to look glamorous" because they are "paying money to watch a film".
"Whenever my costume designer presents my heroine in a knee-length outfit, I`d ask him to cut it short. If my heroine gets angry, I`d tell her the audience haven`t paid so much for nothing," he said.
Bhatia, who acts both in Bollywood films and regional Tamil cinema, immediately issued a public statement and demanded an apology from the director.
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