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Not just an evolution but revolution of cinema is needed. Women Filmmaker are criticised so heavily these days because chances are they can steal your job, earlier the possibility was considered ludicrous Have to be tough, fighting but with great empathy. You cannot have a vocation by trying to be somebody. It has to be your own. It's not easy to convince yourself you do not have depression when it is all you write about.  Sometimes you try so hard to poop that nothing comes out. When it comes to protagonists, whatever they might be after marks a lack that sets spectators' desires in motion.  फितूरी पर कहा तक?  There's always tomorrow and then there's not.

Women and Violence

Violence and women's association brings in certain power dynamics, the violent woman on screen is not a symbol of Power, freedom, free will or strength but a symbol and facilitator of the masochist and bdsm fantasies of men.  When the idea of the violent women surpasses the fantasies and overcomes the idea by shaping itself to be something bigger than the idea of bondage and masochism, the next burden put into it is of the villain, the femme fatale. Women with violent tendencies or violent reactions ( note it doesn't matter what the initial action is in terms with the reaction) are either something to lust for or something that disrupts the intricate plans or perfect life of the hero with her seduction and plotting.  The women in more modern films are now given some agency as to in relation with violence but it is still a by-product of feelings of vengeance, self defence or revenge. A woman's violent tendencies are nothing but a reaction to a man's violence.  Please kno...