In a recent study conducted by ET-Synovate, every fifth worker in India is subjected to sexual harassment, with Bengaluru emerging as the leader with 51% respondents saying ‘yes’ to the question, “Have you personally faced any kind of sexual harassment at the workplace?” The other cities included Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Pune.
The study made it to the front page of ET on 22 August 2010. Did you read it?
I have just one point to make. In each city, the survey was administered to 75 respondents. Isn't it too small a number for a survey of this nature?
When I was in Bengaluru in 2004, I had gone to watch the Hindi remake of Disclosure (1994) with couple of friends from school. The remake was called Aitraaz. I enjoyed Priyanka Chopra’s performance, liked the casting of Askhay Kumar as the victim of sexual harassment, and found Paresh Rawal’s lawyer act annoying.
I also found the ending too convenient - the character played by Priyanka Chopra commits suicide post the ruling (the case is fought by none other than the victim’s lawyer wife, played by Kareena Kapoor). Someone obsessed with power would give up on life so easily?
Last weekend, I watched the original starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. This well-written movie is based on the novel by Michael Crichton. The victim gets further victimized at the workplace (for instance, his access to data is revoked), his wife gets upset and she expresses her hurt privately while standing by him throughout, he receives unexpected help from an anonymous person, and he engages a lady lawyer who fights harassment cases for male victims.
Douglas’s character came across as too cocksure despite being the victim – this is probably the only weakness in the movie.
Michael Crichton passed away in 2008 from throat cancer, and now Michael Douglas has been diagnosed with the same disease. Douglas, I hope you take to chemotherapy well. Prayers are being sent from here.
And you gentle reader, link the following – Rain Man, Disclosure, and Wag the Dog?
The study made it to the front page of ET on 22 August 2010. Did you read it?
I have just one point to make. In each city, the survey was administered to 75 respondents. Isn't it too small a number for a survey of this nature?
When I was in Bengaluru in 2004, I had gone to watch the Hindi remake of Disclosure (1994) with couple of friends from school. The remake was called Aitraaz. I enjoyed Priyanka Chopra’s performance, liked the casting of Askhay Kumar as the victim of sexual harassment, and found Paresh Rawal’s lawyer act annoying.
I also found the ending too convenient - the character played by Priyanka Chopra commits suicide post the ruling (the case is fought by none other than the victim’s lawyer wife, played by Kareena Kapoor). Someone obsessed with power would give up on life so easily?
Last weekend, I watched the original starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. This well-written movie is based on the novel by Michael Crichton. The victim gets further victimized at the workplace (for instance, his access to data is revoked), his wife gets upset and she expresses her hurt privately while standing by him throughout, he receives unexpected help from an anonymous person, and he engages a lady lawyer who fights harassment cases for male victims.
Douglas’s character came across as too cocksure despite being the victim – this is probably the only weakness in the movie.
Michael Crichton passed away in 2008 from throat cancer, and now Michael Douglas has been diagnosed with the same disease. Douglas, I hope you take to chemotherapy well. Prayers are being sent from here.
And you gentle reader, link the following – Rain Man, Disclosure, and Wag the Dog?
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