It has been a good year for actress Parineeti Chopra as she had three quick releases in a short span of time. It began with “The girl on the train” on Netflix & then “Sandeep Aur Pinky Farar” & recently it was “Saina”.
Recently in an interview she revealed how serious she is about portraying women roles in a film & how she is contributing to uplift a role of a woman in a society.
Speaking on portrayal of women in Indian films, Parineeti said:
“I strongly feel that actresses have to change the narrative of how women are portrayed on screen. Right from my debut, I have tried to do this. I have always taken it on myself to do something out of the ordinary, not portray the quintessential heroine that Bollywood has tried to depict for ages.”
She mentioned about her character in her last three releases:
“My last three films – TGOTT, SAPF and Saina were also an attempt by me to give varied, bold, confident, ambitious heroines to audiences. My next film choices will resonate this thought process too because I definitely want to do my bit to portray women better.”
The Girl on the Train is a Hindi adaptation of a international best seller novel with the same name written by british writer Paula Hawkins. The book was adapted into a movie in Hollywood in 2016 and it starred Emily Blunt in the lead. While Saina was a biopic on badminton ace Saina Nehwal, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar was a much-delayed crime drama, directed by Dibakar Banerjee.