Published 11:26 IST, September 20th 2019

Section 375: Actor Richa Chadha on strong, content-driven films

Section 375 stars Richa Chadha talks about how commercial stars add advantage to the content-driven movies in Bollywood. Read to know her statement and more

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Richa Chadha is kwn for her role as Bholi Punjaban from movie Fukrey.  actress is currently seen playing a lawyer in her recent release, Section 375 alongside Akshaye Khanna. Richa feels that content-driven cinema is recently getting highlighted in Bollywood because of involvement of commercial stars and production houses in such projects. Read below to kw her statement. 

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Richa Chadha on content-driven films

During a promotional event for her movie Section 375, Richa said that Bollywood always used to make content-driven films but it is only w that y are getting highlighted. She thinks that this is because commercial actors and commercial production houses are becoming part of such kind of films. This could be a d to recent hits of content-based films like Toilet: Ek Prem KathaPadmanAirlift starring Akshay Kumar, an A-list actor in Bollywood. Earlier, movies like ShahidAligarhTalvar were high on content but did t perform very well at box office.

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Richa Chadha on Section 375

After special screening of movie, Richa was asked about movie to which she told media that, team has done ir job and w are waiting to see audience's reaction on it. She is very excited to see audience's verdict of film. Talking to media, she also mentioned an incident when, one girl and boy complimented her by saying, ‘thank you for making this kind of film' which made her happy that audiences are appreciating film. When asked on what mess Section 375 gives to audience, she told that movies give a mess as well as entertain people. She hopes that people start talking about issue highlighted in her film.

Directed by Ajay Bahl, Section 375 stars Akshaye Khanna, Richa Chadda, Rahul Bhatt, and Meera Chopra. movie is based on #MeToo controversy. According to Richa, movie shows difference between law and justice.  film released in cinemas on September 13, 2019. It has received positive reviews from both critics and audience. movie collected Rs. 8.04 crores, in its first weekend.

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