There's hope for women in cinema: Director Farah Khatun
Times of Bennett | Updated: Mar 17, 2023 09:07
By Shreya Singh Chandel
"I can't say if there is a
When it comes to the notion of success, the sky is the limit. However, when it comes to women who are competing to reach for the sky, they find themselves being driven headfirst into a
In a society where everyone is competing in a race towards excellence, any gender that does not identify as a male has additional obstacles lined up for them.
Where males are expected to be alphas, family heads and their bread winners, women are expected to perform household chores as if they don't have a work life to cater to and cater to work lives as if they don't have household chores to look after.
Khatun discussed how deep rooted misogyny has not only poisoned the society in context to her award winning documentary, '
"I have observed that a female cinematographer has to prove herself by putting in extra efforts to gain the approval of her superiors, in comparison to their male counterparts," she said. Khatun cited an example of the day-to-day gender discrimination faced by females in the field of films and television.
Khatun also mentioned that women can't even voice such things out in the form of films, not because of the lack of medium, but because of the fact that the audience in India considers these topics as PSAs.
However, Khatun hopes to witness a new dawn of hope anytime soon, after being cordially invited to the 18th
Bennett University’s Times School of Media is a key partner in the 18th
(The writer is a Semester II student of BA (Journalism and Mass Communication) programme.)
