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Suhasini Maniratnam talks astir depiction of women successful cinema. (Photo: Suhasini Maniratnam/Insagram)
Actor-filmmaker Suhasini Maniratnam said that women successful cinema are being “exploited” successful the sanction of “freedom of expression,” arsenic much artistes are embracing the warped thought of equating showing tegument with being “liberated”. The cinema veteran, who has worked crossed the Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada movie industries, lashed retired astatine the “Western” influences that Indian cinema seems to beryllium under.
In an interrogation with Mathrubhumi, Suhasini Maniratnam was asked however she views the practice of women successful modern cinema, to which she said that successful a quest to “copy” the West, artistes person mislaid their way. “There is simply a batch of state successful tegument vulnerability and adjacent scenes due to the fact that we’re copying the West and we don’t caput doing sensuous scenes. From the directors to the artists, they are a small much liberalized (now). We are again backmost to the exploitation of women. Women are doing this willingly, whether it is assemblage vulnerability oregon adjacent (intimate) scenes.
“Earlier on, to beryllium successful the rat race, you had to bash those kinds of scenes adjacent though you didn’t judge successful them. But today, you are saying, ‘mentally I americium escaped to bash this. It’s not for money, it’s not to beryllium fig one. But I’ll bash immoderate I want.’ So, I deliberation successful that facade of state of expression, women are exploited successful films,” she added.
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She said that the practice of women successful commercialized cinema has changed since 2010, but earlier that, it was each astir “taming of the shrew.” Suhasini Maniratnam said that commercialized films were dominated by the antheral gaze, which was challenged by women successful society.
“Whether it was Vijay oregon anybody else’s film. Now, Vijay doesn’t bash it. He has done films with Asin and others wherever it was taming of the shrew. I’m not blaming him due to the fact that it was the manager who had brought successful the taming of the shrew. It’s besides a story, isn’t it? We’ve had it for truthful galore years, and we didn’t complain, truthful wherefore are we complaining astir it now?
“It’s due to the fact that women person woken up and asking wherefore is each movie astir taming the shrew? An arrogant, modern miss is sobered down by the man. Any Hindi mainstream movie if you’d take, that was the main thing,” she added.
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