‘I respect women’: Mukesh Khanna defends controversial comment about ‘Me Too’

Defending his recent controversial statement about the ‘Me Too’ movement and the working women, veteran actor Mukesh Khanna said that nobody can respect women as much as he does. Earlier, Khanna gave a statement in which he said that women should not compete with men and stay at home.

He was heavily criticised for his comment, which was dubbed “sexist” by many.

On Saturday, the 62-year-old actor shared the full video of his earlier interview. “I am not against Women Working. As I said let me show you my full interview taken by someone from which this “Vivadit Bayan” has been taken to malign me that I mean “This” which I don’t mean,” he captioned the post.

“I was just commenting on how Me too can happen. You can see yourself in this interview how I respect women,” he added.

He also posted another video of himself in which he talks about his views on the ‘Me Too’ movement in Hindi. 

In an interview with The Filmy Charcha, Khanna said, “The job of a woman is to take care of her house. The problem of #MeToo began when women started working. Today, women talk about walking shoulder-to-shoulder with men.” 

“People talk about women’s liberation, but let me tell you where the problem begins. The first person who suffers is the child because he doesn’t have a mother taking care of him at home and sits and watches TV with his nanny all day. It all began when women started saying that they want to do what men do. No, a man is a man and a woman is a woman,” he said.