Filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee says that he intends to delve into the psyche of a woman for his next film.
“My next has a woman protagonist. But I don’t know how the inner world of a woman is, how different it is from that of a man.
“But I can figure out the position of a woman in a society by roughly mathematically mapping it to that of a dalit’s in the society. That’s a little more accurate description of what I am trying to do with my next film,” said Banerjee.
The 47-year-old director said he does not objectify women.
“In my films, I am not objectifying a woman or any character and if the characters are not objectified then what are they doing?
“I think, men and women are fighting for power and if you take away power plays out of men and women, then 90 per cent of the relationship is gone,” said Banerjee.
The Byomkesh Bakshy! director said gender division is ingrained in society in the most “silent and untold” ways.
“When your older sister goes to a cheaper school and you go to an expensive one, its unsaid but that stays with you forever. That’s when you know damage happens. These kind of damages are silent and untold.
“My family is fairly chauvinistic and male dominated. For example, I am sitting at the dinner table and my father tells my mother to serve me food. So, I am automatically entitled to get the food served and my mother or sister has to serve that to me. So, it gender inequality happens in such insidious ways and we start suppressing it. I don’t know if I empathise with them but I do feel guilty and bad,” he said.
