Singer Harshdeep Kaur, who carved her own path from being a reality show winner to one of the leading female voices in Bollywood, said, “Because there are more male dominated movies, the songs are also mostly male dominated. Thankfully, the trend seems to be changing with more female oriented movies like Raazi, Manmarziyaan, Hichki, etc.”
Kanika Dhillon’s stories not just have very strong women characters, but she also excel in unleashing their unspoken dreams. Having written Manmarziyaan and Kedarnath, Kanika said, “I love being a woman in a man’s world!”
The writer, whose next is Mental Hai Kya, added, “I feel I find my footing with my stories and characters which are at par with any of my male counterparts. I believe being a writer and author is gender neutral as ideas cannot and should not have a sexual preference or domination!”
Having said that, she however asserted that if we must view it from a gender perspective then “As the traditional wisdom dictates, emotions, complications and feelings are best understood by a woman!”
The helmer of films like Lipstick Under My Burkha, Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare and the web series Made in Heaven, Alankrita Shrivastava opined, “I want audiences in India to open their hearts to stories told by women about women, particularly, smaller independent films. Also, it is crucial that there is better representation of women behind the camera.
“When there are more and more women making, shooting, writing and producing films, there is going to be a fundamental shift in the way women are represented on screen. We will have films that are far more sensitive and layered. When fifty percent of all films are made by women, we actually cannot even imagine the kind of change that is likely to be there in cinema.”
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