Kareena Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Shika Talsania settled down to discuss female friendships, feminism and more as the release of their film Veere Di Wedding approaches on June 1. Mess with them at your own risk!

Reducing female empowerment?

One allegation about Veere Di Wedding is that it is reducing female empowerment to behaving like men, as the trailer showed them using cusswords, drinking and enjoying an active premarital sex life. Sonam countered that to think they are reducing female empowerment to anything in itself is wrong. She shot back, “I don’t think this question would be posed to men that you are drinking, smoking and abusing or sexually active, does this make you less of a man?”

Not a feminist film

Swara declared that they had never claimed that Veere Di Wedding is a feminist film. “Just because people saw four girls who are in a certain urban setting being realistic to what young urban working women, what their lifestyle is... a lot of us who come from this background, we do curse, we do drink... Just because we are showing that on screen why is that becoming an issue? When we allow our male characters to be as close to reality as possible, why can’t we let our women have that?”

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What’s sauce for the goose…

Sonam turned her attention to the allegedly misogynistic Pyaar Ka Punchnama, pointing out that its anti-women dialogues passed without comment. “People have celebrated that film and nobody has once said that don’t you think you are being a little misogynistic by talking about how women are a certain way and how men are looked at as commitment phobic and women are desperate to get married?”

Not a chick flick

Shikha explained why the term is derogatory. “I think it puts you in a bracket and in this day and age, when we are getting out of labels, I think we should move away from that label as well.” At the end of the day, it’s a film about four friends – be they men or women, she emphasized.