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Your last three Hindi films— Tumhari Sulu, Mission Mangal and Shakuntala Devi—are about professionally successful women. Is this a conscious decision?
It is not. Maybe it’s a subconscious decision. (Laughs) Cinema mirrors reality. Previously, cinema portrayed our lives as revolving around the people in our lives—especially men—from whom we derived our identities. Now we derive our identities from our own beings, our dreams and ambitions. Our struggles define us—and that’s getting reflected on screen. It’s high time, you know.
Look at all that women are accomplishing. That’s why Tumhari Sulu is as important as Mission Mangal and Shakuntala Devi. Sulu wasn’t sending a rocket into space, she may not have been as brilliant as Shakuntala Devi, but I like how cinema reflects all kinds of realities. Sulu was an average Indian woman who aspired to be something beyond a homemaker and chose an unusual profession. She was doing the balancing act most working women have to pull off—juggling family and career, pursuing your dreams after your kids have grown up. Our country has its Shakuntala Devis, Tara Shindes and Sulochanas.
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