Richa Chaddha Talks Openly About Her Upcoming Role Of Adult Film Actress’s Biopic
Pune : After “Sanju” there’s another Biopic planned of the south indian adult film actress Shakeela which will be played by Richa Chaddha. Recently Richa was spotted talking on the hypocrisy of the audience towards adult actresses.
Richa said it’s unfair and disrespectful to call adult actors as “pornstars”. In an interview about the biopic, Chaddha said, “Calling an adult (film) star a porn star is a sign of patriarchy. You are disrespecting an actress (Shakeela in this case) who is part of films that are adult in theme. And then you are watching them so much that those films are making huge money. What kind of hypocrisy is that? Adult films are made because there is a market for them… It is really easy to call successful, self-made woman names in a patriarchal society”.
Movie is directed by Indrajit Lankesh and the poster of the movie was unveiled somedays ago which has tagline “Not a pornstar” giving a glimpse of the story yet to be witnessed. Richa further added, “See, there is no point of fighting about what people said about her at the peak of her career. People watched her films and called her a porn star, which she was not. In the film, we are unveiling the story of an actress and the unexplored side of her journey. Then let the people decide if she really deserved the tag she had to bear.”
Richa is known for her outspoken personality and had played many such bold roles in her career and is absolutely confident woman about her work. She also spoke on the recently trending #Metoo movement, wherein she finds herself safe from such disgusting experiences,
“I am really fortunate, in all the opportunities that came my way, of not having to deal with these regular predators who are making the work environment worse for women. But I want to say that I know almost all women somewhere or the other have faced some moments of awkwardness in their life — be it an inappropriate text, uncomfortable touch, some eyes gazing at them… It all happens to us at the workplace. We lost a lot of them in the last few years, but now that women are opening up and standing up against such discrimination, the future looks bright where new talent will come and flourish without feeling uncomfortable at the workplace”, Richa added upon being talking about supression of talent back in the time.
So far as the biopic is concerned, Richa is working effectively on the role in accordance to which a mini kerala will be built on the sets for the reference of the movie to perform a marriage sequence. Regarding the variation of the environment, the actress feels good to brush her performance as per the role,
“One of the reasons why we wanted some media to come here on the set is because of the beauty of this place… It is calm, quiet and a colourful slice of the southland. This is a set we have built to show how a south Indian marriage looks like. The mandap, decoration with flowers and every authentic element of a Malayali marriage gives us a chance to soak in their culture. For years, we are widely exposed to north Indian culture through Bollywood films. But with this biopic, I am hoping that a large Indian audience will get to experience the beautiful south Indian culture.”
This however threads in a long of audience which increases our wait for the Biopic even more.
