A still from the movie.
DECLINING TO stay the theatre release of Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, the Delhi High Court Thursday said there is a view about the existence of gender bias but courts cannot go around saying “you are wrong”. The court was hearing a suit filed by the Centre against the movie—which is already available on an OTT platform—for allegedly portraying the Indian Air Force as misogynistic.
Adjourning the matter to January 18, the court said it would see the movie before further proceedings. When the Centre pressed for a stay on release of the movie in theatres, the court said it has already been released online.
“Some of us did not have the time but everyone has seen it. Who will go to the theatre amid Covid?” the court observed. It also asked the counsel—including Harish Salve, the counsel for Dharma Productions—to exchange views among themselves and try to sort out the issue.
Observing that perceptions of people and artists may vary, Justice Rajiv Shakdher said, “You may or may not agree with that. They say there is gender bias in the organisation. Today it is the Air Force, tomorrow it could be bureaucracy… it could be our profession too. There is talk of gender bias in the courts… The…
