A Bollywood actress has created a video with Vogue India in an effort to empower women in the country . The project , which is entitled My Choice , is about installing the belief that women have a choice over the body , their relationships and their future . In the clip , actress Deepika Padukone recites a poem about the freedoms females should be entitled to , while the images of 100 , mostly unknown , women from Mumbai flash up on the screen . Actress Deepika Padukone , who has released a video about female empowerment with Vogue India . In the film , she addresses the common notion in most parts of the country that women should dress modestly . She says : 'My body , my mind , my choice . To wear the clothes I like ; even if my spirit roams naked . 'My choice ; to be a size 0 or a size 15 . They don ’ t have a size for my spirit , and never will , . 'To use cotton and silk to trap my soul is to believe that you can halt the expansion of the universe . ' Since it was published at the weekend , the video , which was produced by filmmaker Homi Adajania , has been viewed more than two million times . Deepika at the Cannes film festival in 2010 . While many responses to the clip have been positive , there has also been a significant backlash . Many of its critics have taken issue with one of the parts of the speech where Deepika talks about sex outside of marriage . She says : 'My choice to marry , or not to marry , . 'To have sex before marriage , to have sex out of marriage , or to not have sex , . My choice to love temporarily , or to lust forever . ' Twitter user ‏ @ roopabanerjee wrote : 'The main error in Deepika Padukone 's # VogueEmpower video : a world where # MyChoice rules would be a sad and dangerous place to live in . ' Another called @ Amaa_Yaar wrote : 'The speed of universe 's expansion is directly proportionate to a woman sleeping outside her marriage ! ' Twitter reactions to the My Choice video . Others have taken issue with who the message is directed at , claiming that the women who would really benefit from it are India 's poorest , but that it is being shared among the those who are already empowered - the middle classes . DNA India writer Soumonty Kanungo wrote in a blog post : 'When it says `` My Body , My Mind , My Choice '' , what is the video really trying to convey ? Whose choice ? Urban women ? Educated urban women ? Educated , working urban women ? Is there any choice for those unexposed to this video ? No ! 'There are thousands of women in lanes and by-lanes of cities and villages of India who do n't have a choice . Choice is too fancy a word for them . They just take orders and obey . 'They take orders in every step of their lives as their choices are not for themselves alone , but for their families as well . 'Are they wrong in thinking beyond themselves ? Are they wrong , if they chose to compromise to make room for those they love ? These are far more real choices , much more significant than clothes and sex . '
Deepika Padukone has made female empowerment video with Vogue India . Bollywood actress tells women in the clip that they control their destiny . Score: 6