Dimple Hayathi, Ashika defend Janhvi Kapoor amid Peddi backlash: Blame the system
The controversy around Janhvi Kapoor‘s portrayal in Peddi has been building since the film’s first show on Thursday. By Saturday, it had pulled in voices from within the Telugu film industry itself, sharing their two cents on the issue. ‘Blame the system, not the actress’ Dimple Hayathi, who has appeared in Telugu films, many with actor Ravi Teja, posted one of the most detailed and direct responses to emerge from within the industry on X. “I’m so glad today on this day we all are speaking about how actresses roles are being written and the instinctive response to blame actress after doing what she was offered,” she wrote. “Don’t blame the actress. Blame the system and makers who really think that’s what sells.”She went further, describing the structural conditions that define what is available to actresses trying to build careers in the industry. “We actors get to work within the opportunities what we get trying to make it big and hoping we would be working in bigger films and reach wider audiences. If the characters are underwritten the responsibility lies more with writing and filmmaking choices than the woman playing the role.” Hayathi also addressed how actresses are reduced to the characters they play, regardless of what they are actually capable of. “Unfortunately we are stereotyped by image which and how things unfold with characters that we play without getting the opportunity to showcase our full potential to perform, whereas when the hero centered stories takeover the liberty to project.”
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