Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. File photo

Jaya Bachchan never seems to run out of questions for youth, to be précised. She appeared on the podcast “What The Hell Navya,: and threw some questions at her daughter Shweta Bachchan and granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda. Out of which, one question was directed towards why Indian women choose to dress up western more than cultural.

As the conversation flowed, Jaya asked both women accompanying her, “Why is it, I want to ask you both, that Indian women are wearing more western clothes?” to which Navya replied, ‘I don’t know.’ Whereas Shweta said, “I think it's because of ease of movement. It's easier to move around. A lot of women are now just not just at home, they are going out, they are getting jobs. It is easier to pull on a pair of pants and a T-shirt or a shirt than it is to maybe drape a saree."

Jaya emphasised that women often dress up for other women as to how they will look at their style statement and what they will think. However, men have different criteria. "Women dress for each other, men dress for the women," said Jaya.

Jaya, shedding a light on what she thinks about it, said, "I feel what has happened is very unknowingly, we've accepted that the western clothing is more… it gives that manpower to a woman. I would love to see a woman in a womanpower. I'm not saying go wear a saree that's just an example but I think in the west also women always dressed in dresses. This whole thing much later in life where they also started also wearing pants."

To which Shweta said, “Yes with the industrial revolution and when all the men went to war and women started working in factories. So they had to wear pants because you can't be doing heavy machine work with.”

24-year-old entrepreneur, Navya asserted that still society is influenced more by men and the social system works in their favour. Though she added that the ideal situation would be that it was also according to the comfort of a woman with fewer biases.

She added: "We do live in a world that's mostly designed for men. We've kind of almost adapted to the world that we live in but imagine if it was built more to our comfort," shared Navya.

Adding to the conversation, Shweta said that if a woman demands for equal pay at her workplace, it is completely justified. "Equal Pay is not an unreasonable ask," she said.