where we are living? Nov 01 2014 : The Times of India (Kolkata) Kolkata theatre screens by skirt length Girl Humiliated For Wearing Knee- Length Dress; Dad Goes To Womens Panel A Taliban-like code at the KMCowned Star Theatre drove a birthday girl, wearing a dress that barely revealed her knees, to tears with the hall staff labelling it `drishtikotu or obscene. It was only when her outraged father intervened that she was allowed in. Neither KMC, nor Artage -the private firm managing the theatre -had any reservations about screening Shah Rukh Khanstarrer `Happy New Year in which heroines gyrate to songs in skimpy dresses. After waiting for three days for an apology , the father filed a complaint with the state womens commission. On October 28, the class XI student, her father and younger brother went for the movie to celebrate her turning 17. She looked natty in a black-and-white floral print dress. The trio was about to enter the theatre when a female security guard asked the girl to step aside. “I thought I was being tak en for frisking as they do in some theatres.But they took me to a ticket clerks cubicle.He looked at my dress, pointed to the notice that read shorts arent allowed and told me it was `drishtikotu. I felt so humiliated that I ran out crying,“ she recounted.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 16:58:36 +0000
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