Actress Uorfi Javed came down heavily on entrepreneur Mannan Dattah on Monday evening after a video of him making objectionable and crass statements about women getting raped went viral. Uorfi slammed him for his remarks and advised her followers to stay away from him.
Dattah, who is reportedly a self-defence coach, and also the founder of a chain of martial arts academies, said in a video recently that when women approach him to get trained in self defence, the first thing he tells them is that what clothes they wear matters a lot.
“All women get pissed off by it. They argue that a 4-year-old child also gets raped and a woman in burqa also gets raped. Valid point. But tell me something, if I tell you that there’s a very bad area, a crime den, and you go there wearing rolex on one wrist, carrying iPhone in the other hand, and with a bag full of cash, and if something happens, then it would be your mistake right? You can’t say that those criminals need to fix themselves,” Dattah can be heard saying in the video.
Uorfi lashes out at Mannan Dattah
As soon as the video went viral, Uorfi shared it on her Instagram handle and slammed the entrepreneur for his remarks. She wrote, “I see a bank, there is no security, I rob the bank cmon they were literally advertising their money, they were literally asking for it. According to statistics, 90% of the r*pes were committed by people known to the victim. This crime happens more in rural areas than urban areas. Now if you’re walking on street a murderer unalives you, who do blame? The victim? Murderer? Or the weapon? A murderer was just acting on its instincts! Why are you walking with your body so freely available to be unalived! (sic).”
She went on to say, “Does this man think women are deliberately going to dangerous places wearing short clothes cause they want to get r*ped? You think woman don’t care about their security? How easy is it to blame everything on a woman’s clothing except for blaming the r*pist! Please do your research. Imagine if we started blaming other victims the same way? (sic).”
“Ladies stay away from such men. If he is a teacher, ladies do not go to this man. It’s 2025, we don’t need a man victim blaming woman (sic),” she added.
Netizens support Uorfi
Netizens lauded Uorfi for voicing her opinion and calling Dattah out for his comments. Some also urged other netizens to report the entrepreneur’s social media handles and boycott him.
Dattah has not responded to the backlash over the video yet.
