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The above videostaged as a public service announcementhas a message for women dealing with the trauma of rape and sexual assault: "It's your fault." Two Indian women (played by noted Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin and TV personality Juhi Pande) talks about how women cause rape because "men have eyes" and women often dress in provocative clothing. (The "provocative" clothing includes thick yellow raincoats and spacesuits.)
"It's my fault," Pande says, as a stranger drags her away out of the blue. The pair run down a whole list of other ways women can cause rape to happen to them. "Another way women shamelessly propagate rape is by working late into the night," Pande says. "Ladies, why work late and be independent? In fact, why work at all? That's what husbands are for. Fun fact: If he's your husband...it's not rape."
Later in the video, Koechlin is shown bloodied, with gauze on her head. "If you tired of being humiliated by rape, you can always go to the cops and be humiliated by them instead!" she informs female viewers.
AIB's live performances regularly tackle social issues, religion, politics, and taboo topics. In their current live show (titled The Sex Show), they dedicate an hour and a half of sketch comedy and stand-up to the subject of the Indian sexual experience. "It's Your Fault" was inspired by their disgust toward the "hateful remarks" hurled at rape victims in India.
"We had been toying around with the idea of talking about how the police and society say stupid things to blame everyone but the perpetrators and did some live stand-up on the issue...in 2012 in our year-end news comedy special," Khamba says. "Since then the idea kept bouncing around until we started our YouTube sketch show."
