EXCLUSIVE: Chhapaak Director Meghna Gulzar Reveals A Male Centric Issue She Would Like To Make A Film On

    Meghna Wants To Make A Film On This Male-Centric Issue

    EXCLUSIVE: Chhapaak Director Meghna Gulzar Reveals A Male Centric Issue She Would Like To Make A Film On

    Director Meghna Gulzar is one of the most prolific filmmakers of the country. She has always been ahead of her times right from her first film Filhaal. The film surely didn’t do well at the box office but it surely would have garnered a bigger audience today in case it would have released now. The filmmaker then went on to make wonderful films like Talvar with Konkona Sen Sharma and Raazi with Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal in the lead roles. And now Gulzar is ready with her next film Chhapaak that has Deepika Padukone playing the character of an acid attack victim.


    The filmmaker makes brilliant films and that is not the question for sure. After Raazi and now Chhapaak Meghan's films have brought to light some strong female characters. However, despite Deepika playing the lead in Chhapaak, the filmmaker stresses on the fact that in some places there are men who have faced an acid attack and the woman is the attacker.

    Therefore the issue is universal. But in case the filmmaker wants to make a film that deals with a very male-centric issue or issues faced by men on a daily basis she says, being a parent herself, she would want to focus on the issue of single-parenting. Quipped she, “I haven’t thought about it actually but being a parent myself and being a child of separated parents, I think the stigma attached to a single parent is something very unfortunate. And particularly for men.

    EXCLUSIVE: Chhapaak Director Meghna Gulzar Reveals A Male Centric Issue She Would Like To Make A Film On

    She went on to say that things haven’t quite changed and it is still the same. She stated, “It happens even today. Women somehow have an advantage. You will allow a single woman to raise her child because she has maternal instinct. Why do you assume that a father would not be as nurturing and I have just thought of this instinctively now. There are so many things like this.”

    Well, if in case a film on this topic is made, it will surely give rise to many conversations and arguments and that is what good cinema is all about. What do you have to say about this, people?

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