Talking about how she feels about women taking the lead in streaming shows, actor Rasika Dugal said in a conversation with IANS said, “I am very happy with the kind of content that is being written about women.”
“A few years earlier, I used to feel that people are talking a lot about ‘women-centric’ films. But I would always feel at some level — not with everything, but with a few projects — I feel that it was just an act of tokenism… Just to check a box of feminism they (makers) would be like ‘lets make this’,” she adds.
Dugal, who is part of the recurring cast of the Netflix series, Delhi Crime, said, “The script otherwise wouldn’t have any nuance, wouldn’t really try to explore what the woman is going through, but I feel that has changed.”
“I feel that the characters [are] written about women now… Delhi Crime is a very good example that [is] very nuanced. They are celebrating femininity, they are exploring what it is to like being a woman in this country,” she said.
Dugal feels there has been an evolution in terms of content related to women. She will next be seen in the third season of Mirzapur, where she will reprise the role of Beena Tripathi, wife of the dreaded gangster Kaleen Bhaiyya.