20 Movie/TV Characters Who Are Extremely Sexist

Most people in our country go out to watch movies for entertainment. After all, that is what movies are for. However, not many people focus on what movies are teaching us and our children. A lot of crime is prevalent and acceptable in society because they have been shown in the movies as acceptable. Once the movies learn to understand how much wrong and crime they are spreading in the society, perhaps the world will be a more equal place to live in.

1. Gautam In Cocktail

Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress  >> Read More... played Gautam in Cocktail. In the movie, he has a casual relationship with a woman and he moves in with her, but when it comes to making his parents meet her, he is hesitant. Not only that, he ultimately ends up with the other girl, who is a shy, typical Indian girl, suggesting that the modern women are to be toyed with while the traditional girls are for marriage.

2. Raj In Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent >> Read More... benefited heavily from this movie, but no one can deny how sexist his character is. In the train, he randomly puts his head on Simran’s lap. Also, even if just for a moment, he lets her believe that they slept with each other and laughs it off later on, stating that he would never do that to an Indian girl. This is the man who has already had several physical relationships in his past, but Indian women are different. Why?

3. Raj Aryan From Mohabbatein

Shah Rukh Khan plays a teacher here, and he teaches some pretty good things, like to have fun once in a while is not a crime. However, when it comes to the women characters, he encourages his students to go after them even if they do not like it, and break their current relationship, because they are unaware of what is good for them and he, who has never met them, knows exactly what they want.

4. Radhe From Tere Naam

It is rare to find a character that Salman Khan Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a pr >> Read More... portrayed who is not sexist. In Tere Naam, he stalks, harasses and forces gifts on a girl who is just not interested in him. When she vocalizes it after having clearly rejected him several times, he just cannot understand why a woman would reject someone like him. He is a goon but he cannot understand what is wrong with him.

5. Arjun In Pardes

Shah Rukh Khan mostly acts as a pimp in the movie, deciding what is best for Ganga. He knows she trusts him blindly, but he still lets her make what he knows is the wrong choice. He encourages her to go for Rajiv, becomes a part of his objectification, and even though he loves her, he says he cannot pursue her, because he must look after his adoptive family.

6. Rahul In Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

He cannot except that a woman is better than him at sports. Also, he goes for the girl who is feminine, wears dresses and puts on makeup, and when Anjali, who he treats as his sidekick, tries to become more than just a sidekick, he gently puts her back in her place. Then, when a few years later when he sees her in a sari with long hair and makeup, he just cannot resist her.

7. Lucky In Main Hoon Na Click to look into! >> Read More...

The character was portrayed by Zayed Khan Zayed Khan aka Zayed Abbas Khan is the son of the >> Read More... . He has the best friend of Sanju, who has been in love with him for ages, but he does not even look at her because she is a ‘Jhalli’. By Jhalli, he means that she takes full freedom with her dressing. When the same girl enters college with a different hairstyle and Indian traditional clothes, he instantly falls in love with her. Did the person inside Sanju change with her clothes? No. But Rakhi Sawant also has a role in the film, where she plays a slut, which we are supposed to know because she wears mini-skirts.

8. Aman In Kal Ho Naa Ho Click to look into! >> Read More...

‘7 din ladki in’ - the concept is so wrong on so many grounds. To play with a woman’s emotions like that, to force her to fall in love with someone else, just because you think she cannot take the hurt of Aman dying. Aman could have told her the truth and let her practice the authority of making her own decision instead of making it for her, but he is the man, he is more sensible (according to him) and takes her decisions too!

9. Chulbul Pandey In Dabangg Click to look into! >> Read More...

The character embodies everything that Salman Khan stands for. The actor has a restraining order issued against him by his former girlfriend who he physically abused, he has murdered people under the influence of alcohol and he has gotten away with it all. He and his fans consider it to be a testimony to his manhood, and Chulbul Pandey is one such character. He is a cop, who marries a woman by harassing her, making her believe that he knows what is best for her, which is himself and the other woman in the movie, a dancer, is Munni, who is happy to have drunk idiots (including Chulbul) dancing all over her and demeaning her.

10. Aarfa In Sultan

Anushka Sharma Born in an army family to Col. AjayKumar and Ashim >> Read More... disappointed a lot of her fans due to her character in this film. Aarfa works hard all her life for a medal in the Olympics but gives it all up for the sake of Sultan, who practiced for mere months before winning a medal. Because, he is a man, he needs little practice compared to others. Not only did it give out the message that women must lay out their lives for men, but also trivialised the hard work of millions of athletes who work hard from a very young age and give their entire lives for the medals that they try to win for their country.

11. Bhuvan In Lagaan

Bhuvan chooses the desi girl over the foreigner, because she is modern even though she has lived all her life in India. She sings and expresses her love too, but it is given less importance, because it is in English and because she cannot understand Hindi, the India language.

12. Abhi In Kumkum Bhagya Kumkum Bhagya was broadcasted on Zee TV channel. I >> Read More...

The character is pretty much crazy. At times he is the smartest person around, while on other times he is dumb, just plain dumb. He gets married to a woman just to teach her a lesson, and then when he falls in love with her, he does not believe any proof that she brings to him against his girlfriend, who he continues to be in a relationship with despite getting married to another woman.

13. Raman In Ye Hai Mohabbatein

The character is sweet a lot of the times, but mostly, he is rude and impossible to understand. His wife, Ishita, takes care of his children as her own, but when due to an accident which was not her fault, their daughter gets kidnapped, he blames it all on her and asks her to leave. When she returns after a gap of seven years due to a force of circumstances, he blame her for going away in the first place.

14. Dev In Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi

The show is very twisted, and so are the characters. The relationship between Dev and his mother is so intense that she does not allow him to get married. She makes all his decisions, and when he falls for a girl, she swallows sleeping pills. So he leaves his girlfriend but starts to stalk her. When his mother finds out, she agrees to get them married, and he leaves no stone unturned to break a match that the girl, Sonakshi, was about to get into, and convinces her to be with him again, because that is what his mother wants.

15. Madhu In Bade Bhaiyya Ki Dulhania Bade Bhaiyya Ki Dulhania is an Indian, Hindi langu >> Read More...

This character was perhaps the most annoying character in the entire show. Not only did she try to make all the decisions that she had no right to make, but she also tried everything and anything in order to make the lead character marry a girl of her choice, who is a nice, ‘homely’ girl. The female lead did not know how to cook or take care of the family, so she was not ‘homely’ and thus unsuitable for their family.

16. Bunny In Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Click to look into! >> Read More...

Everyone loves Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’, and the character of Bunny, which Ranbir Singh plays, but did you notice that the major problem throughout the movie was that Naina could not leave her life of stability and her profession as a doctor and travel the world with Bunny. Bunny however, makes the decision for her in the end, claiming he loved her and wants to marry her. After having led the life of a rover, he wants to live with the proper Indian girl.

17. Rancho In 3 Idiots Click to look into! >> Read More...

Although he behaved pretty well with Kareena Kapoor Khan Kareena Kapoor is a super hit actress working in I >> Read More... ’s character, but remember the speech that was so funny? He had tampered with it, and placed words that translated to breasts and rape in it. This is how he made the speech funny. So everyone was actually laughing at an organ of the female body, and a serious offense that ruins the life of anybody who it is committed against.

18. Shoaib In Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara!

He knows that the woman he is love with is in love with someone else, but he keeps going at her, trying to kill Imran Khan Imran Khan is an Indian film actor, who is famous >> Read More... and making her realize that he is better for her.

19. Radhe In Wanted

Salman Khan’s character in Wanted first falls in love with a girl, then he makes her fall in love with him by continuously making her encounter him, and then he does the typical bad boy thing and starts to avoid her, forcing her to go looking for him.

20. Rahul In Darr

No big surprises here. The character is a negative one and one among those that made Shah Rukh Khan who he is today. The character stalks a girl and then goes mad when she falls in loves with someone else.