Characters in movies usually say a lot about the person who created them. Recently, we stumbled over a tweet that mentioned how there is a huge difference between male characters written by women vs. those written by men. That got us curious, so we dove in to see how women write male characters in movies compared to how guys usually write them. Here’s what we found in terms of the different characters written by men vs women:
Here are the different characters we noticed:
1. Male Friendship written by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti vs. written by Milap Zaveri and Tushar Hiranandani in Masti.
2. A patient and a kind lover written by Juhi Chaturvedi in Piku vs. toxic and controlling lover written by Sandeep Reddy Vanga in Kabir Singh
3. Men betrayed in Love written by Bhavani Iyer and Meghna Gulzar in Raazi vs. Himanshu Sharma in Raanjhanna
4. Musicians written by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar in Gully Boy vs. written by Imtiaz Ali in Rockstar.
5. Male leads written by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar in Dil Dhadakne Do vs. written by Sandeep Reddy Vanga in Animal.
6. Lover: Robbie written by Kanika Dhillon in Manmarziyaan vs. Badrinath a glorified stalker written by Shashank Khaitan.
7. Heartbroken young lovers written by Juhi Chaturvedi in October vs. Luv Ranjan in Pyaar Ka Punchnama
8. Man who rejects a woman: Dr. Jehangir “Jug” Khan by Gauri Shinde in Dear Zindagi vs. Dev written by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane in Dev D.
9. This doesn’t need an explanation. Male protagonist written by Aparna Sen Sharma in Mrs. & Mr. Iyer vs. written by Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
We will leave it up to you to decide which type of characters you want to see on screen more often.
Images from respective movies stills & posters