Anything that you have watched recently that impressed you with how it shows women in a commanding and powerful space?
Honestly, I really don’t watch anything! I am terrible at that. I am more of a reader than a watcher. It’s been ages since I watched anything because I am either working or I am busy at home or I have a book in my hand.But from where I am standing, from all the films in the recent past that I have heard about, the fact that we had a film on a female cricketer (Shabaash Mithu, starring Taapsee Pannu as former Indian cricket captain Mithali Raj) is a major first step. It was a film that didn’t do well, but at least someone made it, at least someone backed it and thought that it was a subject worth bringing to the screen. I think PS I and PS II (Ponniyin Selvan) are also very powerful films that showcase women very strongly. We got to see Ash (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) in an amazingly powerful light. It was a fantastical world, but it had very powerful female characters.
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