We require individuals telling ladies stories, not 'women-oriented' movies: Siri Ravikumar

Siri Ravikumar, Bengaluru, Indian cinema.

Aug 8, 2024 - 22:00
We require individuals telling ladies stories, not 'women-oriented' movies: Siri Ravikumar

Bengaluru, Her life spun around a set of ordinary rules – domestic, work, domestic, and dosas for breakfast each single day. Normally, it is with a surrendered gloominess that Prerna goes approximately her life in 'Swathi Muthina Male Haniye,' within the process pulling out all the "complete stops" saved for female leads in films.

For Siri Ravikumar, who fair won the Most excellent On-screen character grant in Kannada dialect movies category at the 69th Filmfare Awards-South, for her depiction of Prerna, it is the different shades of dim that made Prerna – that which makes somebody a human – that are frequently denied to characters, particularly ladies characters, in Indian cinema.

"Yes, it has taken a whereas for Indian cinema to advance in terms of appearing ladies in a specific light. But indeed these so-called women-oriented movies, where, you know, she is depicted as the boss – she is everything – are moreover very skewed. You can't truly have a lady in such a great light all the time. You ought to too appear what she is terrible at, what works for her, what does not work for her and what she does that work or does not work for others," Ravikumar told PTI.

Usually where Ravikumar said she lucked out. The characters she has played so distant are as imperfect as any lady is in real life. Indeed in her exceptionally first film as female lead, 'Sakutumba Sametha' , her character Shraddha is "way as well befuddled" for a regular heroine.

"I am blessed sufficient to have gotten parts that have kind of broken a parcel of obstructions. In the event that we take 'Sakutumba Sametha,' what offered most to me was the character of the young lady and her perplexity, the central point of the film. You continuously see your hero as the idealize one, with no blemishes, having figured out life. But at that point there was Shraddha, all confounded around what she needed in life," said Ravikumar.

A Bengaluru-based radio move who was truly into theater, Ravikumar started her film travel in 'Harikatha Prasanga,' the make a big appearance directorial wander of Ananya Kasaravalli, the incredible Girish Kasaravalli's girl.

 "It was a little part. I was alluded to the film by Prakash Belawadi, who is additionally my master, I might say, in theater. When I went for shoot, I had no thought what shooting for movies was like. When I came back from shooting after 10 days, I still couldn't get it what filmmaking was all almost," said Ravikumar.

But little parts in movies came her way before long after, like National Grant winning Kannada chief P Sheshadri's 'Beti' and Hemant Rao's 'Kavaludaari' . Lead roles in one or two of web arrangement, one of which never truly saw light of the day, and an promotion for Cadbury taken after.

At that point Rahul P K and writer Pooja Sudhir, who had worked with her in one of the internet arrangement – the one "that never took off" – drawn closer her with 'Sakutumba Sametha.'

"By at that point, gradually my intrigued developed and I got to be intrigued with movies as well. It felt astonishing to allow life to those characters. Being portion of all these ventures gave me certainty that I might do any part. It's fair altering to the distinction between the organize and the camera. I figured it out that's all it takes. That move is what I had to be careful of," said Ravikumar.

And when 'Sakutumba Sametha' happened there was no looking back, she included.

Ravikumar too considers a 'woman film' does not fundamentally require a lady executive.

"There are producers like Hemant Rao and Shishir Rajmohan who are exceptionally delicate to the nature of what a lady would need or what she would need to tell within the part or in a specific scene. I remember Shishir inquiring me for a woman's perspective. So, when there's imaginative collaboration like that, it gets to be very comprehensive," said Ravikumar.

But she concurs that when a lady tells a story, some of the time idiosyncratic aspects of being a lady come out much more smoothly.

"Particularly Roopa Rao , I think, has that quality. I really need to work with her. There's that sense of something that I cannot put into words. It's a affectability. Possibly, sometime in the not so distant future I will work with a lady filmmaker," said Ravikumar.

Given that her interest for movies has developed gigantically in these a long time, Ravikumar trusts to one day coordinate movies as well.

 "I do not know in case I am prepared to tell a story however. But there are a parcel of thoughts and I am too happy there are a part of ladies producers around who are very motivating. I trust it'll happen sometime in the not so distant future," said Ravikumar.

For presently in spite of the fact that – presently that she has the pined for Dark Woman – Ravikumar is cheerful that she was immovable in choosing movies in which character curves develop from the conventional, and now and then apparently ordinary, angles of life.

"On the off chance that you inquire me, I think what we truly require is more individuals telling women stories instead of making women-oriented films,” said Ravikumar.

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