'Shaktimaan' actor Mukesh Khanna says women who ask for sex are doing 'dhanda' | Watch

Mukesh Khanna's sexist comments on women prompted "Shaktimaan" comments.

Actor Mukesh Khanna, best known for playing the role of “Shaktimaan” on a show of the same name, has drawn the internet’s ire for his recent distasteful comments on women.

“Koi bhi ladki agar kisi ladke ko kahe ‘I want to have sex with you’, wo ladki, ladki nahi hai, wo dhanda kar rahi hai. Kyunki is tarah ki nirlaj baatein koi sabhya samaj ki ladki kabhi nahi karegi. (If any girl tells a boy that she wants to have sex with him, then she is not a girl, she is running a sex racket. Because a decent girl of a civilised society will never say such things,” Khanna said in Hindi in a video uploaded on his YouTube channel Bheeshm International.

In the video, he also talks about fake social media accounts that lure men with sex and send questionable photographs with the intention of blackmailing the recipient later for money. He tells people to be wary of such women as he goes on a seven-minute rant denigrating women and generalizing them as con artists. The video was titled ‘Kya aapko bhi aisi ladkiya lubhati hain? (Do such girls lure you as well?)'.

A small clip of his first comment was shared widely on social media that was blasted by netizens.

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“When Shakti and maan dono leaves you,” wrote one user. “Ok boomer” and “ShaktiNoob” also featured in the comments.

Many even used iconic dialogues from the show to shut Khanna’s sexist comments down.

“Orthodox kaayam rahe,” reads a comment.

“Sorry Shaktimaan, this time you're the one in the wrong here,” wrote another user.

Khanna, 64, who had a career in films and television in the 90’s, now runs his YouTube channel and routinely shares his opinions. Some of them have drawn flak over the past years.

In this upload too, Khanna does what he has done before – drawn controversy. He even asked women to stay within “limits” and respect traditions in the clip.

Sony Pictures has partnered with Khanna’s company for a movie adaptation of “Shaktimaan” which will feature a major actor in the lead.