India, Dec. 11 -- Actor Saumya Tandon, who plays Ulfat Hasin in Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar and is paired opposite Akshaye Khanna's Rehman Dakait, recently defended the film against claims of misogyny. When a comment she made about 'heroines on beaches' was taken as a jab at the YRF spy universe, she clarified.

Saumya replied to a comment on X (formerly Twitter) about how male-dominated Dhurandhar was. While agreeing to that, she denied the film was misogynistic, writing, "They aren't beaten, objectified, or shown as one of many wives, even though that society could have allowed it." She also added, "Sorry that the grain of this story doesn't allow for glamorous heroines singing songs on exotic beaches, that may work for other scripts, but ...