Vidya Balan: Female actors are more vocal
Vidya Balan feels that nowadays, people in India are feeling worried that their wives, daughters, mothers are standing up and challenging their status quo. She also took jibe at male actors saying that they shut their mouths on relevant issues whereas female actors are more vocal.
“I think female actors have been more vocal in a lot of ways and male actors don’t open their mouths at all, which is why we are told ‘why don’t you stick to what you are doing. There have been threats issued’. That’s only because we (females) are threatening their status quo,” said Vidya.
She added, “People are worried. And I’m not saying that just men are worried that tomorrow, their daughters, sisters, mothers, wives, girlfriends or friends are going to stand up and question what is happening around them, and that is where it comes from. It comes from that deep-seeded fear that their status quo is being challenged. I think whoever wants to express should be able to express.”
Vidya is, for the first time, working with a female director in her upcoming film Shankutala Devi. Asked if it is different working with a female filmmaker, she said, “Yes it is. I have just had my first experience. It has been written and directed by Anu Menon. So, it’s my first experience with a female director.”
She added: “I don’t want to make gender generalisation, but I think experiences and perspectives of men and women tend to differ. So, I would call it as an equaliser and I would like to see that happening across the board.”