Years earlier than she entered the movie business, Nitya Mehra knew one factor for sure—that sooner or later, she would inform the story of her childhood spent in a boarding faculty. Huge Women Don’t Cry is the realisation of that long-cherished want. Mehra’s thought took a concrete kind through the pandemic, when she gave delivery to a child boy. “I didn’t know when the time can be proper to inform this story. Once I acquired pregnant 4 years in the past and was satisfied that I used to be having a woman, I assumed, ‘Oh my God! I’m going to go away one thing for that little woman.’ I had a boy, which is even higher as a result of he’ll study all the pieces about women via this present,” smiles the creator-co-director.
Nitya Mehra. Pic/Yogen Shah
Huge Women Don’t Cry—starring Avantika Vandanapu, Dalai, Akshita Sood, Lhakyila, Afrah Sayed, Aneet Padda and Vidushi—tells the story of a gaggle of mates in an all-girls boarding faculty, as they expertise sisterhood, rivalries, heartbreaks and uncover who they’re. To the creator, the collection is critical for the easy cause that there are hardly any tales instructed about younger women. “There aren’t any all-girl tales on the market. I’m not speaking about older women. There may be 4 Extra Photographs Please, and I’m so comfortable about that. However the place is the story about women, who’re on the cusp of maturity and navigating their identification? How typically can we see genuine illustration of college life in India? I don’t need a complete technology of Indian women saying, ‘The place are reveals about us?’”
However making the collection wasn’t straightforward. Earlier than Prime Video put its would possibly behind her creation, Mehra shopped it round and heard what served as a obtrusive reminder of the business’s gender prejudice. Mehra, who co-directed the present with Sudhanshu Saria, Kopal Naithani and Karan Kapadia, recollects, “I used to be instructed, ‘We prefer it, however simply add boys to your story. Make it 50-50 and it is going to be superb.’ I used to be appalled. I assumed, ‘Do you not see how distinctive this shall be? You haven’t heard the story of women; no one has. The disparity between tales of all-men and all-women is crying out to you loud!’”