Pankaj Kapur Talks About Female-centric Films

Veteran actor Pankaj Kapur feels that for women to get better roles, the mindset of the society needs to change. The actor says, “Today there are certain films being made in which the female characters are of importance. I am not saying their percentage is large but it is certainly better than nothing, especially what it used to be over the last 20-30 years”.

He added, “When the mindset of the society will change, new stories will be written that way”. Speaking at a debate on male-female equality, the 61-year-old actor stated that awareness about equality is necessary to bring about a change throughout the industry. He added, “If this awareness increases among people, the natural outcome will be that stories will be written that way and female actors will get a chance to do (women centric) characters”.

He was joined by his wife Supriya Pathak and actress Tabu at the debate ‘Why is laundry a mothers job?’ Tabu also opened up about the issue and said, “The audience is a huge deciding factor about the kinds of films being made in our industry”. Supriya feels that change is coming slowly.

Source: rediff.com