Tillotama Shome just said the quiet part out loud about how everyone treats women-led flops like a gender referendum. The Ikka actress pointed out that dudes bomb all the time commercially without anyone questioning whether male-led cinema even works. Yet one female-fronted project stumbles, and suddenly the whole discourse becomes about whether women can carry a film.
She name-checked Kangana Ranaut, Taapsee Pannu, Vidya Balan, and Alia Bhatt as proof that actresses have delivered hits. Her bigger gripe was the language itself. Why slap a gender tag on every director or producer title when women literally comprise half of all people making films? A flop is a team L, not a whole gender taking the blame.
In Ikka, she plays Madhura Banerjee, a public prosecutor going toe to toe with Sunny Deol's defense attorney Arjun Mehra. The courtroom crime thriller dropped on Netflix recently.
She name-checked Kangana Ranaut, Taapsee Pannu, Vidya Balan, and Alia Bhatt as proof that actresses have delivered hits. Her bigger gripe was the language itself. Why slap a gender tag on every director or producer title when women literally comprise half of all people making films? A flop is a team L, not a whole gender taking the blame.
In Ikka, she plays Madhura Banerjee, a public prosecutor going toe to toe with Sunny Deol's defense attorney Arjun Mehra. The courtroom crime thriller dropped on Netflix recently.
