India, Sept. 3 -- The BJP on Wednesday hit out at actor Swara Bhasker for her remarks on the depiction of 'Jauhar' in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2018 film Padmaavat, saying a woman should respect other women.

The BJP's response came after Bhasker criticised the depiction of 'Jauhar' in "Padmaavat", questioning the message conveyed by the film's final sequence.

"I was watching it, and I thought that if God forbid, I was a rape survivor, what is this film telling me? I would feel like a coward that I didn't commit suicide to save my honour... Are we saying that rape is the end of a woman's life? This scene was so problematic," she said at an event recently, which led to social media backlash.

Asked for a reaction, BJP national spokesperson ...