Tamannaah Bhatia is now gearing up for the release of her film ‘Odela 2’. The actress was recently present at the trailer launch of her film where she also spoke about being cast in it, despite her ‘milky beauty’ tag. The actress who is balancing her career in the south and Bollywood, has now opened up on the gender equality. She has said that now while things are much better, it’s still a struggle for women to empower themselves.
On gender-equality
The actress spoke about gender equality in both the industries and said during a chat with Hindustan Times, “It’s getting better. It definitely is getting better a lot. There’s some part of the wokeness that’s working very well for us. The women need to own up to their selves.”
She added, “I think we are fighting too hard. I think there’s too much of a struggle to empower us or there’s this constant need of outlining it that we are women and that we are struggling and that, I mean, it’s us. We are the ones who are constantly putting that into the perspective.”
Tamannaah also spoke about how women should take the matter in their own hands. She said, “I feel like it’s important that if you were to take the matter as much as possible in your own hands and not constantly go into a big party, and think, we are likely to arrive at something that empowers us. It is going to be individual only. And that individual will inspire more individuals to eventually and hopefully one day say that we truly feel like we are equal and empowered.”
On being called milky beauty
During the trailer launch of ‘Odela 2’, someone from the media asked Sampath Nandi who has created the movie about casting a milky beauty like Tamannaah in the role of a Shivashakti. Tamannaah took it upon herself to answer the question asked him and she said, “Your question, Ma’am, has the answer in it. He doesn’t look at ‘milky beauty’ as something to be shamed or to feel bad about. Glamour in a woman is something to be celebrated, and we women must celebrate ourselves. Only then can we expect other people to celebrate us. But if we look at ourselves in a certain way, then nobody can respect us, right? Here, we have a wonderful gentleman who doesn’t look at women like that. He sees women as divine, and divinity can be glamorous, lethal, powerful—divine can be many things. I mean, a woman can be many, many things.”
