Ambiecka Pandit, Nimisha Sajayan share how Babita Singh Reporting created a cop bogged down by patriarchy | Interview
In Indian films, the female cop is often wrapped in a hyper-masculine mould—performing slow-motion walks, delivering booming dialogues, and displaying flawless, heroism. But Prime Video’s upcoming film, Babita Singh Reporting takes a drastically different and human path. It introduces us to Babita, a woman who is not a ready-made superhero, but a person struggling to find her footing in a system designed to keep her small. The film’s team talks about going down this road less taken in a candid chat with Hindustan Times. Babita Singh Reporting stars Nimisha Sajayan. Not a ‘male cop in a female body’ The representation of women in uniform has suffered from a lack of genuine female perspective in Indian films. The film’s executive producer Sudip Sharma highlights this pitfall: “A trick that we miss when men write female cops is that they basically write male cops but as females. I think that was what was so refreshing about this script and this film that it doesn’t do so.” He says Babita Singh Reporting embraces a lived reality of a …
