Key Points
Anu Singh Chowdhury, who has written Aarya and Grahan, adds, The awareness that we need to tell our own stories has led to a lot of women pushing their way into the writers room by putting the proverbial foot in the door..
We as writers now focus on closing character arcs of each character, and that has denitely led to adding more nuances instead of the cardboard (or stereotypes of) women characters one would often see, especially in mainstream cinema..
In lms such as Bandini (1963) and Sujata (1959), the women characters were strong and had agency..
However, writers say that the perception of whats a womens place in the society was so entrenched that even when strong roles were written for them, their position within the gender dynamic remained that of a subordinate, which has now changed...
However, he says that even in lms like Bandini, no matter what the woman is in life, when it concerns the gender equation, there is a certain position that she naturally occupies.. has spoken about how for Arth (1982), distributors insisted on changing the last scene where her character refuses to take back her unfaithful husband..
