"There are three types of Indian film," Zinta rationalises:
- "The arty contemporary ones which very few go to see,
- then the filmy song-and-dance types everyone watches,
- and then nowadays there is a mixture of them both." means the lighthearted-in-tone-but-serious-in-message movies
"There is nothing wrong with a bit of short skirt and motorbikes here and there," she admits.
"Women in rural India are treated like second-class citizens," she says angrily in her speech to the Union.
"Why should men stalk our women on roads, tease them on buses and trains, and assault and rape them, when five of our 29 states are run by politically empowered women?" she asks furiously.
Her views on 'eve-teasing' – the Indian term for the way men harass, intimidate, and even openly grope women publicly on the streets – are uncompromising: "Just give them a chapal (sandal) to their face."
"The older generation will always keep referring back to situations in the past, it is for the younger generation like you to make the future." on India Pakistan Problem Issue.
"It's tough, it's difficult," she says bluntly. "The most difficult thing is to be compared to your image, to hide any pain in public and be someone you really don't want to be at that moment." on being an actor.
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