“You can either take personal revenge or speak for your people- Madam Chief Minister.

[Edited By: Vijay]

Friday, 22nd January , 2021 01:27 pm

Richa Chadha has been one of the few Bollywood personalities, who have continued to condemn systemic oppression of any kind. The last few weeks, however, have found her at the wrong side of it all, courtesy her upcoming film Madam Chief Minister.

From the film’s first communication to the audience through a casteist poster to Richa’s decision to collaborate with director Subhash Kapoor, she has been questioned for going against her otherwise feminist beliefs.

Richa answers why she wouldn’t let go of a character because she is an upper caste, and the biggest lesson she’s learnt from the poster-controversy surrounding Madam Chief Minister.

She is somebody, who by some reactionary logic models herself as a tomboy because three of her older siblings were killed off, simply because they were women. So, she has become the man of the house, she is riding the bike, she is chopping the wood and working in the fields and she is also a librarian at a university.

But something happens to her that forces her to either seek vengeance or do something long-term about it and that’s when she meets this character of Dadda or Master ji (Saurabh Shukla), where he tells her, “You can either take personal revenge or speak for your people.” So then she gets involved and has a meteoric rise. Her impulse is aggressive, she is unafraid. I really thought I hadn’t seen a character like this in Hindi films.

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