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Vikrant Massey plays the role of Pradeep who ends up cheating and eventually realize that he has done wrong whereas Amol Parashar plays Usmaan who has a very simple way of looking at life but he has his own dilemmas.
I got a chance to talk to Vikrant and Amol and I asked them their point of view about gender stereotypes and issues addressing sexuality.
Here are the excerpts:
On Virginity, Peer Pressure And BullyingAmol ParasharI personally have never felt it and I am not denying that this doesn’t happen. All of these things happen because of the stereotypes that we nurse. I am from an engineering background and in our college, there was a joke that ‘sab hi virgin hai’. And as you grow up, we do realise that there’s nothing wrong or right. Bullying in general, be it virginity or anything else, shouldn’t be promoted. We should be aware that we are making someone uncomfortable for no reasons especially if he has done *** or not. If he or she wants to do it, he will. Why to bully people?
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Vikrant MasseyWith regards to the bullying aspect of this conversation. I absolutely agree. I even did a film, A Death In Gunj, that spoke about things on similar lines. Knowingly or unknowingly, we really don't know what action could impact the other person in what way and we need to be mindful of that. We need to be aware of our words, our actions and there's any way dearth of compassion right now in this world and society, especially. So, I think we need to be mindful about it as to how we treat one another. With regards to being virginity, I have never been bullied for it. There could be reason to why this could be happening to men. It’s a very long discussion.
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Many Men Call *** A 'Tamasha' In Movies Driven By WomenAmol ParasharThis is not the case and I feel it will take time to change. There have always been people who will not approve of the content. If you back in time, people weren’t approving of the votes. 50 years later, people would not be saying that this is some ‘tamasha’. There are all kinds of people in the world, in the country, in society. And you know, it's a spectrum of cultural and thought.
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Vikrant MasseyThis is the mindset that we want to change and we have catered to this particular thing in Lipstick Under My Burkha or Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare. In the movie, there’s a scene wherein Bhumi and Konkona are talking about if services like Romance Call Centre would have been open for women. This is exactly the patriarchal mindset, our narrow-mindedness that Alankrita and many like her have been trying to sort of address through their films. And if there are people who are finding it weird, or they are not ready to accept this particular narrative about women taking agency over their lives, and sexual desires, just being a part of it, it shows how yet we have so much more to achieve. In 2020, we have been talking about it and I think it talks about the unfortunate events that we are a part of.
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Amol ParasharIt just struck me as we have been talking about it. How can these people say that only women are having ***? It’s always two people are having ***. How can differentiate between a man is having *** or a woman is having ***? The difference actually stemmed because it’s a movie driven by women. Whosoever calls this a ‘tamasha’, ask that person.
Complexity And Dilemma Of The Characters; What Did They Take Back?Vikrant MasseyWith regards to Pradeep, l learnt that what not to do because that can put me in awkward situations that I don’t want to be a part of. But, there are many Pradeeps that I have interacted with probably, probably I have been a Predeep at some point in my life to someone. The beauty of Alankrita’s characters is that they're so complex yet they are so simple. And they're so relatable that somewhere down the line, you will, as an actor, when I played the parts that she's written for me, I have somewhat connected with parts of me that I had lost connection with them. I rekindled my understanding of myself, So what I'm trying to tell you here of that every character teaches you a lot. You know that you have put a bit of yourself in every character that you do. There are different ways to play different characters. You cannot have one fixed method of acting. So coming back to the main thing is that our target through Dolly Kitty is to elevate or to sort of highlight their misery, especially in my case, it was Kitty by soft of cheating on her or keeping her in the dark. She gave this guy her heart and he happened to be her first time, you know, even in bed or even in life, to all these things were bigger priority then. And I'm really happy that people today message and they say. you were so good that we hated you. So I think that's a good takeaway after all the time, readings and efforts.
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Amol ParasharMy character is not as complex as Pradeep on paper. Pradeep’s world is dark but Usman is pretty straightforward and for him, his perspective about world is simple and the world around him is complex. He is like each one of us. He has plans like he has to get a job or do MBA. When you're performing like that for a few days or a few hours in the day, it leaves traces in your body. So I think I probably took away a simpler way of looking at things. He's not trying to be cool. Unlike other people, he's just doing what he likes doing.
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Stereotypes Related To Sexuality And Gender Reversal Vikrant MasseyI think it's our own understanding of our own sexuality to begin with. I think we ourselves don't and when I say we, yes, I do talk as a man, but I think everybody should sort of sit back and talk about their own orientations. At least in my life, I have come across really young kids who really have no sexual identification. You know, they, there are so many kids who I've seen, who love playing with girls and it is unfortunately our failure at identifying these things at a very young age and, and our failure to identify these things overall. He's this young little boy who probably likes playing with kitchen sets or who likes playing with dolls, but it is our rigidity or it is our inability to understand our own selves at first is when we land up forcing things on others. Not just regard to sexual orientation, we need to have a basic understanding of our own self. We need to bring in a change that way. I think, our film is one of them, but there are so many other people who are addressing the same issue about the accessibility towards anybody's sexuality. And I think it's a long drawn race, not a race, a long drawn marathon. We are slowly and steadily heading towards the right on.
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Amol ParasharThat was something interesting that he just said. We are hearing a lot of voices now, thanks to the social media. You know many different kinds of voices that we know of. They are sharing their worldview, their experiences, how they look at life and their identities and how, you know, the structures around this society affect their lives. This has been very interesting for me. So, the more I read, the more I am also understanding right now. I am not a bully. But again, I will be honest enough to say that as a young teenager, we might have unintentionally made fun of certain things. Why are we saying a certain things are feminine? It’s us only who have made these structures. It just struck while we are discussing and I am also realising it.
View this post on Instagram“Raasta galat nahi hai, alag hai” - When I read the script @alankrita601 gave me, I realized there were many things in it which were very different from what I had read before in screenplays. When I shot those scenes, I realized that even her vision was refreshingly different from how I was used to imagining certain moments, relationships and events. And those things didn’t come from a place of just trying to be different, but from a place of deep conviction. It was empowering to be directed by somebody with a unique, personal and original voice. It was an affirmation of my long held belief that: In art, just like in life, as long as your choices come from true conviction and empathy, they are as valid as the traditional choices, if not more. Thank you for Osman, Lanki! More power to you, and all the Dollys and Kittys of the world. ⭐️❤️ @balajimotionpictures @konkona @bhumipednekar @vikrantmassey87 @kubbrasait @kkundrra @ektarkapoor @ruchikaakapoor @netflix_inA post shared by (@amolparashar)
Vikrant MasseyI want to add something here. There was an ad campaign called ‘Ladke Rote Nahi Hai’. I feel this dialogue has already started and things are changing slowly. We are heading towards the better tomorrow.
Amol ParasharWe hope that we will find better ways of communicating it.
We hope that this conversation did change your perspective of looking at these conversations and dialogues that society has been struggling with for ages now.
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