Women’s Day special: Need to tell stories from female perspective
08th Mar 2004
19.17 IST
By ApunKaChoice Bureau
A number of women directors in Bollywood feel that there is a need for more celluloid stories with female perspective.
“A story need not necessarily be woman-oriented, but it should be told from a female perspective,” opines Pooja Bhatt , director of Paap.
According to Pooja, a woman sees the world in a very different way than a man. Recalling her experience of shooting with Biapsha Basu for Jism, Pooja says that she along with Bipasha was able to lend more sensitivity to the story’s subject by giving it an entirely female point of view.
Actress Manisha Koirala , who recently shifted to film production with Paisa Vasool, holds the same opinion. Manisha says that women, being more emotional beings than men, are equally competent (if not better) to tell a good story.
“Only a female knows about the kind of subjugation women go through in this male dominated world. Hence, who could be in better position to tell her story that she herself,” says Manisha.
A number of women directors in Bollywood feel that there is a need for more celluloid stories with female perspective.