After her global breakthrough with Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light a couple of years ago, Kani Kusruti has now made inroads into Hindi cinema with Anubhav Sinha’s courtroom drama Assi. She plays Parima, a rape survivor in New Delhi seeking justice against her perpetrators in a local court, being represented by a driven lawyer Raavi (Taapsee Pannu). In an exclusive interview with SCREEN, the actor discusses her language constraint, change in women’s safety on Malayalam film sets, and her take on vigilante/saviour/revenge sagas. You’ve previously said you’ve been approached inappropriately at workplace. Have the film sets become safer after the formation of the WCC (Women in Cinema Collective) in Kerala? I’m seeing a change in Kerala at least. Fifteen years ago, if I’d go to a Malayalam film set, you’d mostly have other female actors as the only other women. Compared to Kerala, whenever I come to Mumbai, there are more women present on set. That already changes the workplace nature. In Kerala, you’d see barely one female assistant director, that too only …