Bhumi Pednekar Sad That When It Comes To Women Oriented Films "Everything Is Just Automatically Cut Down"

Bhumi Pednekar opened up about the representation of women in cinema and lamented how in the film industry ‘everything is just automatically cut down’ when it comes to making women-oriented films. The actress who has been working to break stereos associated with women in films like Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Bala, Saand Ki Aankh, hopes that one day films will be seen for characters leading the story and not the gender.

The actress shared these observations during an interview with News 18 where she spoke about the underrepresentation of women in films and said that even though women have made a big headway but stressed that there is still a long way to go.

“We need good budgets. We need our films to be promoted well. We need our films to be treated like mainstream cinema. It’s really sad if you have a woman-led story everything is just automatically cut down. But I really hope that eventually the conversation shifts from a woman-led film or a man-led film to just a film that’s led by a character. I think that’s what needs to happen. I don’t think we are anywhere close to it,” she said.

On the professional front, Bhumi will next be seen in the sequel of Ayushmann Khurrana’s Badhaai Ho titled Badhaai Do which also stars Rajkummar Rao.