Varun Grover: Actors have to be sensitised about on-screen gender-based violence

Writer Varun Grover has known as for specialists to observe the violent sequences in films, particularly these that includes girls. Grover, identified for penning Neeraj Ghaywan-directed Masaan and Netflix collection Sacred Games, stated filmmakers and content material creators must take proactive steps to sensitise actors about scenes involving violence towards girls.

“There are intimacy coordinators today who choreograph intimate scenes in films and shows, inform the actors what they are going to do and how it will be done. Similarly, we need experts to choreograph and coordinate scenes involving violence and its impact on the audience so that violence in our cinema does not become a medium for normalising it,” Grover stated right here.

The 48-year-old scribe was talking at a dialog session, which was a part of Fursat Mei Serious Baatein occasion organised by Delhi-based girls’s proper NGO, Breakthrough.

Fursat Mei Serious Baatein is a collection of conversations hosted by Varun Grover the place he speaks to main writers and filmmakers from the Hindi movie business to discover and provoke discussions across the detrimental impression of normalising violence on display screen.

The visitors within the collection embrace famous filmmakers Vikramaditya Motwane, Sudip Sharma, Shonali Bose and Alankrita Shrivastava. Priyanka Kher, Head of Media at Breakthrough, stated the target of the collection is to get influencers and main individuals from Bollywood to begin talking in regards to the problematic nature of violence towards girls.

“Pop culture is a big influencer. Sensitising actors about violence in films, particularly against women can significantly help us in shifting ideas and norms around the stereotypical depiction of women. This chat series is an attempt to encourage conversations about the importance of creating gender progressive content for audiences,” Kher added.