{"id":14483,"date":"2023-10-15T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/dhak-dhak-star-slams-scarcity-of-bollywood-films-with-all-female-lead-cast\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T16:09:13","slug":"dhak-dhak-star-slams-scarcity-of-bollywood-films-with-all-female-lead-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/dhak-dhak-star-slams-scarcity-of-bollywood-films-with-all-female-lead-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhak Dhak star slams scarcity of Bollywood films with all-female lead cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_98\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Dhak Dhak star Ratna Pathak Shah has slammed the scarcity of Bollywood films with an all-female lead cast and said that Bollywood had no \u2018real writers\u2019 in the 1980s and \u201990s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bollywood\u2019s versatile personality Ratna Pathak \u2013 an actor and director known for her work in theatre, television and films in both English and Hindi \u2013 is getting ready for her appearance in Tarun Dudeja\u2019s road film Dhak Dhak alongside Fatima Sana Shaikh, Dia Mirza and Sanjana Sanghi.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is about a daring motorcycle adventure of four women through the challenging terrain of Leh.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Dhak Dhak \u2013 Official Trailer | Ratna Pathak Shah | Dia Mirza | Fatima Sana Shaikh | Sanjana Sanghi\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A33H3ddSOcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During a group chat with Film Companion, Shah said, \u201cWe had no real writers for a very long time. At least in the \u201980s and \u201990s, I just saw plain copies of Hollywood movies, being made over and over again, and passed off as original.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that some of Bollywood\u2019s best-known films were frame-by-frame copies. \u201cWe unfortunately spent a lot of time being happy to make the same kind of things over and over again,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Ratna was of the view that the shift in creativity began recently with the OTT boom, as a more diverse global array of films and shows became accessible, particularly to younger audiences.<\/p>\n<p>She told Bollywood Hungama, \u201cI have driven bikes in my dreams many times. I used to look at bike riders and think that someday I will too ride a bike but I didn\u2019t know that at the age of 65, I will have to ride a bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhak Dhak is jointly produced by Taapsee Pannu, Ajit Andhare, Kevin Vaz and Pranjal Khandhdiya that hit the screens on October 13 and getting positive reviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhak Dhak star Ratna Pathak Shah has slammed the scarcity of Bollywood films with an all-female lead cast and said that Bollywood had no \u2018real writers\u2019 in the 1980s and \u201990s. The Bollywood\u2019s versatile personality Ratna Pathak \u2013 an actor and director known for her work in theatre, television and films in both English and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Dhak-Dhak-movie-Ratna-Pathak-Shah-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}