Cover pages matter. Especially on days when you browse through a bookshop aimlessly. It is impossible to not run your fingers across the spines of the books as you drift from one rack to another. Usually, we gravitate towards racks that hold our favourite genre and/or writer’s work. This book however, made my head turn. It was present in the self-care section, one that I don’t ever glance towards. Something about this cover seemed to invite me. I didn’t purchase it, but the one word title was seared into my memory. 

Ah! The good old question of women and how the film industry has treated them, on and off the silver screen for close to a century. From shoving female leads into ‘refrigerators’ (causing harm to a minor character for the character development of the lead) to the manic pixie dream girl syndrome, women in cinema have been subjected to it all.

To get into Digital Art, I initially started like how every other kid does, with a paint brush and random colours. A lot of inspiration came from movies and shows I grew up watching, this may sound a little weird but Aamir Khan’s 2007 film Taare Zameen Par worked like quite an inspiration for me. I remember watching it on Christmas and getting pad and poster colours to become the next Ishaan Awasthi.

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