Mumbai: Shweta Basu Prasad, the young actress who was arrested for prostitution some days ago, has at least one person speaking out in her defence – her TV mother Sakshi Tanwar. Shweta, who was a successful child artist with a National Award-winning role in 2002 film Makdee, played the daughter of Sakshi’s character Parvati on popular soap Kahani Ghaar Ghar Kii for a while.
Sakshi writes, Honestly, I’m quite disappointed that the media reports have so selectively guarded their identity and names. I have no interest in knowing about those degenerate “businessmen”, but I would have loved to see their names come to the fore so that their families – mothers, daughters, sisters and wives – and friends would get an insight into their recreational habits.”
Sakshi also writes about where Shweta is right now and the fact that her real mother has not been allowed to meet her yet: “I don’t know her reasons and problems, and I don’t know any solutions either… All I know is that she is kept in a remand home and that she has apparently given a statement accepting it.
“Why has the large section of media been so selective in highlighting the girl? Why the names and photographs of the businessmen not splashed all over, like the girl’s? Why have those men been granted the right to privacy and not the girl? Is she a soft target just because she is an actor and a public figure? Why is our moral police quiet about this? In a country where even the rapists and murderers are given the right to privacy, why has her right been violated? Why this irresponsible insensitive stand against her?” wrote Sakshi.
In a country where even rapists and murderers are given the right to privacy, why has Shweta’s right been violated?” asks Sakshi.
Bureau Report
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