As International Women’s Day approaches on March 8, a trio of fierce female producers have a sobering statistic about the state of the Indian film industry. Ekta Kapoor, Guneet Monga and Tahira Kashyap discuss lack of women filmmakers
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00:00We should not limit women to only tell women stories, they should tell all kinds of stories.
00:07Do you think only women tell women stories better?
00:10There is definitely a gaze of women. I think women should tell women stories and men stories and vampire stories and Dracula stories because why not.
00:18You know we should not limit women to only tell women stories. They should tell all kinds of stories because we are storytellers at heart.
00:25But there is definitely a warmth and a gaze that women add and that is a lens which is you know I think the world is now coming of age.
00:34There has been suppression for so long that we are a lot of us are building the balance and not that we can do this without men.
00:42I feel like we are all and there are such amazing men around us who are who understand the need of the balance.
00:49So, I don't judge men telling women stories. Please go ahead and tell and I don't put women in a box to tell a certain kind of stories or only women stories.
00:58So, I've done this I mean I did Shootout and I did Once Upon a Time and I was a woman making movies about gangsters and everything.
01:06Guneet and Tahira have done content with certain intent. I want to be a universal studio.
01:13Tomorrow if a female writer or director wants to make an out and out action film for me or for Indian Women Rising I am sure they would also agree that there should never be a box for women.
01:25Or a kind of imagery that you create which is sort of limiting them to do or follow a weather-beaten path or a path that makes them look fitting in or good girls or whatever you know.
01:38But how we have been represented till now it's you know we are put on two extreme ends of the spectrum either we are like I said like revolutionary queens or we are tragedy stricken damsels in distress.
01:50So, but we are so much in between and when somebody like Ekta tries to does that then it's very easily put into a box and judged.
01:58I think we need to really, really let go of that. We don't have a box to begin with and we are not going to typecast or prototype any sort of filmmaker or any story.
02:10So, we are going to expand not just our horizon but the way the world perceives women because I also feel there are only 5% filmmakers and women are individuals who too have their own lens and way of observing and filming things.
02:28We are depriving the world of 50% of the population and how they would want to see things.
02:34We are depriving that. So, I think that needs to change. With Indian Women Rising, we intend to do that.
02:42You know the collective immediately gives you an idea that it's going to be independent movies but you guys won't limit yourself.
02:48It can be even star-studded, it can be as commercial as it gets as well right.
02:52You are not like saying this is only for a western audience like a big two might. Is there any such boundaries being drawn? Is it meant for independent filmmakers?
03:01Commercial, out there movies have all the support in the world and I think there is a lot that goes into making a movie and getting to the end of it and it's very under serviced.
03:15I think the purpose of us coming together is to shine light. Now, if that turns out to be a documentary, that turns out to be a feature, that turns out to be a feature doc, we don't know.
03:24But and we have to also see where we can add value because each of us are doing commercial work in our individual space.
03:31You know this is something that we are doing with our time and energy for something we are head over heels in love with.
03:37Because midnight every day, midnight calls with LA, with New York, pushing through the campaign, it's a lot of work to put out there and to you know put resources out there and to champion it and to ask the universe and to be able to show up and support this on daily basis.
03:53That has to be done for more under discovered stuff.