Day two of the fest had Bollywood people come up with some sharp quotes. "Society (by which he means the audience/consumer of films) cannot go scot-free. A truth of the market is that every product is tested, and if the consumer rejects it, it cannot be launched (on the consumption of 'vulgar' films and lyrics)." - Prasoon Joshi, in Sex and Sensibility: Women in Cinema session"Nowadays, the lyrics that are being written, you'd have to be extremely kind to call them lyrics... You'll see both ugly cinema & ugly politics in the 80s - SarkaiLiyoKhatiya and LK Advani."

- Javed Akhtar, in Bollywood and National Narrative session. "The difference between the celebration of women's sensuality (on screen) and their commodification is in the item number - the focus on the swiveling navel, the swinging hips - the angles that focus only on that. When you do that, you make her surrender her autonomy to the male gaze." - Shabana Azmi, in Sex and Sensibility: Women in Cinema session. "Sexist images are not present only in films/item numbers... A woman can be commodified even if covered from head to toe. You need to read the text correctly, just blaming the image is not the solution. Why do only men sell motorcycles, and sari-clad women washing machines (in ads)? Isn't that sexist?" - Sharmila Tagore, in An Evening with Sharmila Tagore session