New Delhi: After superstar Aamir Khan it's now Bollywood's fashion icon Sonam Kapoor who has expressed her views on intolerance. The actress opened up and spoke her mind at a recent event.
She said, “Intolerance has always been there. We have seen all kinds of nightmares happen in the past 60 years and it's intolerance on different levels.”
Adding further, she quoted, “We have too many religions in our country. We have too many languages, but at the same time there have always been stereotypes and judgements. The fact that people are aware about it and there are dialogues happening, it is a very healthy atmosphere."
The daughter of actor-producer Anil Kapoor also went on to share her experience of how she faces discrimination whenever travelling abroad.
“I've faced discrimination in different countries always. They see brown skin and they judge you already. That's the way it is. People automatically treat you differently. If they see a pretty girl, they treat her differently. But at the same time they judge you in a different way. They feel you are always in 'parda' or your parents are very conservative," she said.
"We also do the same. A lot of my friends think that white skin are prudes. So there is always judgement for all kind of people," she added.
Sonam, who was last seen in "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo" alongside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, said politics should not enter the frame of art and sports.
"It (politics) should never enter that. They all should be different fields. So the fact that I've worked with Fawad Khan in 'Khoobsurat', who I think is a brilliant artist, is completely different from the fact that he is a Pakistani," she said.
"I don't understand India-Pakistan politics at all, but if people of our country can work everywhere, I don't think that there is anything wrong in people from anywhere else to work in our country. Whether it's Pakistan, US, Paris or England - anybody has right to work everywhere," she added.
Now it will be interesting to see that how these statements will be perceived by people.
