Lipstick Under My Burkha director Alankrita Shrivastava finds the current anti-women sentiment in India "sickening".
"The level of anti-women sentiment in this country, at this moment is sickening. The arrogance and violence of a monstrous patriarchal society is in full force. Trying to gag the voices that dare to whisper a few words in defence of a woman's right to life, liberty and dignity," Shrivastava tweeted.
The filmmaker's comment comes in the wake of the news of the rape and murder of an 8-year-old in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, as well as other increasing incidents of crimes against women.
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Shrivastava has been vocal about the need to give voice to women for long.
She came into the limelight when her film Lipstick Under My Burkha, a story of women's secret desires and hidden fantasies, was deemed too "lady oriented" and unfit for release by India's censor board. She fought her way for the film's release.