Parvathy says women are burdened with responsibility of being ‘likeable’ on screen | Malayalam News
Parvathy Thiruvothu, National Award-winning actor and founding member of Women in Cinema Collective, has pointed out that the change in portrayal of women on screen has been “very slow” and she’s not happy with that progress. The actor, speaking at the 15th edition of Screen Expresso in Chennai, also underlined how the responsibility of being likeable on screen is only placed on the women, and not as much on the men. “This bread crumbing of progress doesn’t bode well with me. I’d still take this tokenistic approach of hiring women over nothing. We do need our foot in the door to make some changes. But what we’re missing in terms of representation of our characters, be it a man, woman or any person writing them, are all of us seeing ourselves on screen?” said Parvathy. She added that the representation exists mostly in templates, from the ‘best friend’ template to the ‘mother’ template to ‘the lover girl’ template, which she’s rather familiar with. “Trust me, I’ve played a lover girl for over a decade before …
