Writer Varun Grover has referred to as on specialists to observe violent scenes in movies, particularly these that includes ladies. Grover, finest identified for penning the Neeraj Ghaywan-directed Masaan and the Netflix sequence Sacred Games, mentioned filmmakers and content material creators have to take proactive steps to sensitize actors about scenes involving violence in opposition to ladies.
“Today there are intimacy coordinators who choreograph intimate scenes in films and shows, informing actors what they are going to do and how it will be done. Similarly, we need experts to choreograph and coordinate scenes involving violence and its impact on the audience so that violence in our cinema does not become a medium to normalize it,” Grover mentioned right here.
The 48-year-old journalist was talking at an interactive session that was a part of the leisure program Serious Baatein organized by Delhi-based ladies’s rights NGO, Breakthrough.
Fursat Mein Serious Baatein is a sequence of talks hosted by Varun Grover the place he talks to main writers and filmmakers of the Hindi movie trade and begins a dialogue in regards to the damaging impression of normalizing violence on display.
Guests on the sequence embody famend filmmakers Vikramaditya Motwani, Sudip Sharma, Shonali Bose and Alankrita Srivastava. Priyanka Kher, head of media at Breakthrough, mentioned that the sequence goals to start out talking to influential and distinguished folks of Bollywood in regards to the problematic nature of violence in opposition to ladies.
“Pop tradition is a large influencer. Sensitizing actors about violence in movies, particularly in opposition to ladies, can go a good distance in serving to us change concepts and norms round stereotypical portrayals of girls. This is an effort to encourage conversations in regards to the significance of making gender progressive content material,” Kher mentioned.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
