Year 2011's Nandi Awardee director N Shankar has opined that Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu portrays women in a bad light.
He has cited the habits/character of the three main
women characters of the film. Tamanna, who plays a camera-woman, has
the habit of beer-drinking. Gundakka, the woman politician, is shown to
have the habit of gutka-chewing. Scarlett Wilson, who plays the role
of a tv new channel editor, wields a gun and shoots the hero in a
particular scene.
Saying that there have been many great women like
Mother Theresa and Medha Patkar, N Shankar said that characters inspired
by such women's lives should be depicted in our cinema.
Shankar's views of course carry weight. Do women
politicians chew gutka and talk nonsense as if they are born to take
revenge on men in their tv interviews? By showing a lady editor, shown
to be upright and bold all till then, as committing a crime with her,
what exactly did the film want to say?
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