‘Babita Singh Reporting’ interview: Nimisha Sajayan, Sudip Sharma and Ambiecka Pandit on unmaking a cop-drama
The upcoming film 'Babita Singh Reporting' features Nimisha Sajayan as a police officer navigating workplace sexism and family pressure while solving a murder. The production team discusses the film's focus on deconstructing power dynamics and masculinity within the context of a crime drama.
Why it matters
The film contributes to the growing body of Indian cinema that critiques patriarchal structures and social fault lines through the lens of genre storytelling.
Nimisha Sajayan plays an unusual cop in her upcoming film, Babita Singh Reporting . Joining duty in place of her father after his death, Babita is not taken as seriously by her peers as she is mostly delegated paperwork. Everyone calls her by her nickname, “Baby”, and treat her like one too. Even at home, her husband insists that she leaves her job in order to give more time to family. When she goes to her in-laws place, Baby experiences the brutality of patriarchy in everyday life while she obsessively solves the murder of her childhood friend. There are familiar undertones in these scenes to Nimisha’s earlier film, The Great Indian Kitchen , which portrayed the horrors of being a home maker. The actor says that it was challenging to portray Baby’s emotions authentically.
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