1. It's not simply about casting a bahujan actor, it's about ensuring that there are bahujan folks IN YOUR CAST/CREW. In executive positions, making creative decisions. This is not a hashtag representation matters debate.

2. No one gives a shit if you cast a bahujan actor but the film continues to be dominated by savarna gaze. The reason you're being called out @RichaChadha is because you're making these super entitled appearances in the media

3. You're not being receptive to the criticism and are causing more harm than you already have by crying fragile savarna tears @RichaChadha. Us calling you out doesn't have anything to individually do with you, it has to do with the larger culture in Bollywood.

4. One that is dominated by the desire to make pRogGREsSiVe cinema just because you see it getting laurels in Hollywood lol. But the reality is that your mediocre khatri-brahmin nexus could never do the same because you don't understand the magic behind cinematic success

5. The magic is in tapping into lived experiences, in employing people with the creative power to break the boundaries of cinematic expression. In allowing talented individuals from the community to speak their own truth. But you will never understand this @RichaChadha because

6. you self admittedly believe it's all about money/business. Your films are governed by a liberal understanding of bahujan politics. You only push your narratives as far as your UC audience can take it without feeling offended. You are pandering to the savarna audience

7. and therefore, your work is dominated by that gaze. @anubhavsinha legit said that his film was not for bahujans, that it was made to "spread awareness" among ignorant UCs. First of all? How do you sleep at night having admitted that you used peoples' pain to

8. make a savarna realise that caste exists??? @beemji and @ghaywan and @Nagrajmanjule make films for their folks and that's why those films are splendid and special. That is sadly also the reason why their work isn't "mainstream". Because mainstream artists like yourselves

9. have worked hard to perpetuate a liberal agenda. An agenda that dictates the boundaries of radical thought. If you don't push that boundary (by employing/letting bahujan creatives MAKE their own films), then you will control it and when you control it, you decide

10. what remains mainstream and what doesn't. Why was Juice a RAGING SUCCESS? Because @ghaywan had creative control over the story and was "mainstreamed" by a production company with social and cultural capital. Stories don't have to be "made" mainstream, storytellers have to be.

11. Why was Piku a success? Because "mainstream" creatives worked hard to platform a story by writer who ISN'T mainstream. They didn't dictate the narration. There is a difference between "pandering" and "mainstreaming". Article 15 was pandering, Juice was mainstreamed.

12. Every time the envelope has been pushed in Indian cinema, it has happened WHEN creatives took control over their own narratives, not when they appropriated stories that weren't theres to "mainstream". This is why zoya akhtar's narration of the female experience is

13. unparalleled and cannot be compared to idk... mahesh bhatt's Heroine lol? So yeah anyway, I know you won't ever get this. So go ahead, keep crying. No one cares.