Rocha Chad ha On Jim Au Jim, Female Road Trip Films and Typecasting In Bollywood

Previously, an connection for News18. Com, bollywood on-screen character Richa Chadha discussions something like her approaching novel into a film Jia Aur Jia, female way excursions movies and typecasting in bollywood. 

In an industry wherein films like Di Chatham Han and Zigzagging Na Mile Cordoba have set benchmarks for road trips, it’s surprising to see that projects on all-women road trips are still not a common sight in Bollywood. Perhaps this is why Howard Meyerbeer's Jim Au Jim, co-starring Rocha Chad ha and Kali Touchline, has piqued up curiosity. 

“This is the first film where women are taking a road trip. I think the way people see women in general, they think k pause nah kamikaze, so how will she travel? But the truth is that women do take trips together, they also travel for their bachelorhood now,” she says while interacting with 

 On being asked why it took so long for Bollywood to finally churn out a film like this, she explains, “I don’t think filmmakers can understand girls. Honestly, girls just want to have fun, they want to take trips together. And it’s different when it’s just women and that’s something that Bollywood or any other industry has to understand. If we look at Hollywood for instance, they’ve had many such films. I’m just very confused k Lisa yuk hie

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When asked if this is because of the subconscious fear in filmmakers and producers’ minds that female actors may not churn out big returns, Rocha says, “I think the fear may be there but it’s an illogical fear. If the ratio of successful films in Bollywood is like 5-10%, then people should stop making male-dominated and male-oriented films. Those films are going to flop more if you’re going to consider ratio or statistics.”

“In fact, every film that has fly are people making films with men in them. I think the argument that has been a kind of male-dominated or a male-oriented one, then  can’t sell tickets is illogical,” she adds. 

With more women-oriented films like Deere Di Wedding releasing in the coming months, one might sense a trend. But Rocha hopes for this to be much more than just a mere pattern. “I really hope it’s not a trend – because trends come and go. I hope it’s something longer than a trend. I hope this becomes a genre of films,” she says. 

“People have had to re-imagine how the films are to be done like small town middle-class drama is working right now. If something works, then people start making more and more of that,” she says adding to the fact that the middle-class is now re-emerging in Bollywood.