Aniruddha Guha who is one of the screenplay writers of the Tapsee Pannu-starrer ‘Rashmi Rocket’ feels that it is high time we create and watch female protagonists in Bollywood films like their male counterparts.
Talking about the same during an interview, Aniruddha said “Look, when the film happened Taapsee only brought the story because Nandha shared the story with her. So I knew that she is going to play the title character of the film. I started writing the film in mid-2019 and these films like ‘Thappad’, ‘Saand Ki Aankh’ among others did not release.”
He further added “The idea really was to create a character who is fierce, unapologetic and not a victim but a fighter. Even in the courtroom scene, she was not a victim who was seeking justice but she has taken the entire sports federation to the court because of the wrong practice of gender tests. She demands justice. In my head, I was writing Rashmi like the way I would write a character for a big male Bollywood superstar because why not? Why must a male superstar get a mind-blowing entry shot and why can’t it be a female superstar like her?”
Film ‘Rashmi Rocket’ is based on gender tests on female athletes in India. Directed by Akarsh Khurana the story of the film is written by Nandha Periyasamy and screenplay by Aniruddha.
On the work front Aniruddha is currently busy working on four web series. The writer has previously written the screenplay of ‘P.O.W. – Bandi Yuddh Ke’, ‘Code M’ and’Malang’.
