As a scriptwriter, I should have an unbiased and neutral perspective: Nithin Renji Panicker

While the industry is undergoing a serious of change in its perspective, director Nithin Renji Panicker, who made and wrote Kasaba, the film that courted controversy for a scene involving the protagonist played by Mammootty, observes that a scriptwriter should have an unbiased and neutral perspective.
“I do not think as a scriptwriter, I should consider all this hue and cry while writing a script.Our society is facing a lot of socio-political-economical and religious changes. There is intolerance everywhere. A scriptwriter shouldn’t be influenced by any of these. I can’t be either feminist or anti-feminist. Also I cannot be atheist or a religious fanatic. So, if I start writing a script keeping these ‘new’ rules in mind, my films will turn out to be a soulless one,” he says.
Nithin adds: “All one can keep in mind while creating a character is to do justice to it. While writing a script, nobody will add something intentionally. Even I have not done anything deliberately in my movie. It was misinterpreted without understanding the context. Rajan Sacaria is someone who respects womanhood throughout the film. However, the character is neither a male chauvinist nor a feminist. Equality comes when we have a society where women have the same rights that men enjoy and when they take things in the right spirit,” he says.