Speaking at an event, actress Simran revealed that an unnamed actress had made an ageist and "insensitive" remark to her, stating that she (the unnamed actress) had never done an 'aunty' role in any movie, unlike Simran.
Commentators and feminists have you believe that it is men who are responsible for ageist and misogynist sins in the film industry. When a 21-year-old actress is cast as the romantic interest of a 55-year-old male actor, the males in the film industry are blamed. The male filmmaker gets panned. The male star hero gets slammed for wanting to romance a youngster and not a 40-something woman. But the actress, who is no child at the age of 21, is never blamed.
In the recent Sankranthiki Vasthunam, Asihwarya Rajesh played a mother. The role was earlier offered to two star heroines, who declined it only because they didn't want to play a mother to four kids in the comedy entertainer.
Simran was insulted by an actor who belongs to the same gender that rejects mother characters in films. Feminists argue that female actors don't want to play mothers and aunts in movies because they are wary of patriarchy type casting them. Simran played a mother in a Mani Ratnam movie 24 years ago. Female actors who reject such roles are probably not confident of their talent.
