Farhan Akhtar agrees Dil Chahta Hai women had less screen time: ‘The film is about the three boys’
Farhan Akhtar agrees Dil Chahta Hai women had less screen time: ‘The film is about the three boys’
Twenty-five years after Dil Chahta Hai changed the way friendship and young urban Indians were portrayed on screen, Farhan Akhtar has acknowledged one of the film’s long-standing criticisms, that its women characters did not get as much screen time as the three male protagonists. Looking back at his 2001 directorial debut, Akhtar agreed with the observation, while maintaining that the women in the film were never written as weak or passive characters.
“I agree. The film is about the three boys and they predominantly are on screen. But none of the female characters was written as weak woman,” Akhtar told The Indian Express.
He pointed to Dimple Kapadia’s Tara as a character who, despi...