Women want change in their creative roles too: Shahane

Lucknow: “Over the years, women have carved a niche in just not cinema but in other fields too. In our industry, we have actresses, directors and directors of photography who are trying to push the envelope. Especially in OTT platforms, you will see a majority of women working in the frontline and breaking moulds,” said actress Renuka Shahane.

Along with Lucknow-born theatre and film director Atul Tiwari, Shahane was a part of a panel discussion on ‘Evolutionary Roles of Feminism in Real and Reel Life’ at the spring edition of Metaphor Lucknow Lit Fest.

“In both real and reel life, women are looking out for different voices and they want a change in their creative roles. They want to share their unique experiences just like their significant others do on screen or off screen. There has been a great evolution in that sense because women of our country have definitely grown,” said Shahane.

Sharing a personal anecdote, Tiwari mentioned how liberal parents gave way to women who broke stereotypes and were independent beings. “In a gathering, writer-director Shyam Benegal in a conversation with Col BN Zaidi, father of screenplay writer Shama Zaidi said that Zaidi’s daughter must have been born and brought up in Rampur but she doesn’t know how to cook Rampur Biryani. To which Zaidi replied that women’s identities are not defined by what they cook. He was a liberal parent and evolved man. It was a result of that that Shama became a famous screenplay writer,” said Tiwari.


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