Richa bats for all-female crew in production debut

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Actor Richa Chadha recently announced that she has decided to try her hands at production with a film called Girls Will

Be Girls, along with boyfriend Ali Fazal. Besides being her maiden venture, what makes this project more special is her decision to work with an all-female team.

The 34-year-old tells us that it was her director, Shuchi Talati’s idea to aspire to have an all-female crew. She continues, “Shuchi wanted to see what that would do, having only women on board. We have had one round of interviews with some aspirants. Our coproducers in Delhi, who have produced several award-winning feminist indie films, also feel strongly it should be women-led.”

Set in a boarding school in a hill station in north India, the plot of the film revolves around the coming of age of a 16-year-old girl and her relationship with her mother. Talati’s last film, A Period Piece, had a largely-female crew and she found it to create a nurturing and supportive environment. This influenced the duo to push for an all-female team for this project.

Chadha feels that this move holds the potential to change a lot of things across film industries everywhere. “I think it’s a great, positive, social experiment. I experienced a certain freedom from male expectations, from dressing up, etc in my last year of education at a girl’s college...I don’t know if it’ll usher in a revolution but I definitely think it’s worth trying,” confesses the actor, who is currently busy filming for another project.