MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has sparked controversy in India by saying his heavy training schedule for an upcoming film left him feeling “like a raped woman.”
Khan made the comments in an interview to promote his latest Bollywood movie Sultan, which tells the story of an aging wrestler trying to make a comeback.
“When I used to walk out of the ring, after the shoot, I used to feel like a raped woman. I couldn’t walk straight,” 50-year-old Khan said in an interview with local news site Spotboye.com published on Monday.
In the same interview, Khan said he had been able to quit every “vice” except women, saying that he had given up cigarettes, coffee and alcohol but not female company.
“There’s nothing left to quit anymore,” he told the site.
Social media users slammed the actor’s comments.
“If you are a Salman Khan fan, it’s good, but if you support his pathetic statement, you are nothing but a disgusting creature,” wrote Twitter user @gautamverma23.
Shaina N.C., a spokeswoman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra state, tweeted: “Rape is an exercise of power to destruct a woman’s self esteem, (from what) I (know) of @BeingSalmanKhan he respects #women so he must apologize.”
Salman’s father Salim Khan apologized for his son Salman Khan’s ‘raped woman’ gaffe.
Taking to Twitter, the 80-year old veteran film writer wrote, “Undoubtedly what Salman said is wrong, the simili, example and the context. The intention was not wrong.”
Khan made the comments in an interview to promote his latest Bollywood movie Sultan, which tells the story of an aging wrestler trying to make a comeback.
“When I used to walk out of the ring, after the shoot, I used to feel like a raped woman. I couldn’t walk straight,” 50-year-old Khan said in an interview with local news site Spotboye.com published on Monday.
In the same interview, Khan said he had been able to quit every “vice” except women, saying that he had given up cigarettes, coffee and alcohol but not female company.
“There’s nothing left to quit anymore,” he told the site.
Social media users slammed the actor’s comments.
“If you are a Salman Khan fan, it’s good, but if you support his pathetic statement, you are nothing but a disgusting creature,” wrote Twitter user @gautamverma23.
Shaina N.C., a spokeswoman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra state, tweeted: “Rape is an exercise of power to destruct a woman’s self esteem, (from what) I (know) of @BeingSalmanKhan he respects #women so he must apologize.”
Salman’s father Salim Khan apologized for his son Salman Khan’s ‘raped woman’ gaffe.
Taking to Twitter, the 80-year old veteran film writer wrote, “Undoubtedly what Salman said is wrong, the simili, example and the context. The intention was not wrong.”
