VIDEO: After Deepika’s ‘My Choice’, Dia Mirza, Shabana Azmi talk about women’s right

Here is a poem by Maya Angelou - And Still I Rise, recited by Aditi Rao Hydari, Dia Mirza and others.

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After much controversial Deepika Padukone’s “My Choice” video by Vogue India, Aditi Rao Hydari, Dia Mirza, Konkona Sen Sharma, Lushin Dubey, Shabana Azmi and others have come together in a new video that talks about women issues.

The video, an initiative by Creative Services Support Group (CSSG), shows influential women reciting a poem by Maya Angelou – And Still I Rise.

In the beginning of the video, Lushin Dubey reads out an open letter written by a teenage girl on gender inequality and says, “You [society] dictate our life and force us to conform to your rules and your views which are often stereotypical.”

This influential video has a motivating message, watch here:

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