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Rohena Gera studied at Stanford University and Sarah Lawrence College. She works as a scriptwriter for Indian cinema . She also engages in non-profit campaigns to defend peace and equality.
Jul 1, 2018 · Breaking the class ceiling: Screenwriter-turned director Rohena Gera. Screenwriter Rohena Gera, 45, marks her directorial debut with Sir, a feature film that explores the dynamic between a domestic help and the employer.
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Nov 18, 2020 · But writer-director Rohena Gera infuses Ashwin and Ratna with a sense of cultural individualism. The attraction between them is not a gimmick. Indian society conditions its occupants to interpret – or misinterpret – domesticity as the language of desire.
Nov 13, 2020 · Rohena Gera’s Hindi, English and Marathi-language Sir falls somewhere between these two starkly different approaches. It tells the story of Ratna (Tillotama Shome, A Death in the Gunj ), a widowed domestic worker who finds a complicated romantic spark with her recently single employer Ashwin (Vivek Gomber, Court ), who’s just returned from ...
- Rohena Gera
- Siddhant Adlakha
- The Universal Appeal of The Film: Love Story?
- Economic Status and Romantic Relationships
- On Making Ratna The More Matured One
- On Tillotama Shome Playing Ratna
- On Ashwin and Vivek Gomber
- Men and Patriarchy: Men Get A Lot of Pressure as Well
Gera accepts that the subject of the film is very Indian so what is it that made it appeal so universally? She says “the spirit of the film is a call to believe in your dreams to break out of society, to be who you want to be, and it’s a love story.”
On why she decided to marry the class disparity so rampant in India into a romance, she said, “The class division is something I have struggled with from a very young age. Having people who would take care of you, I remember I sat and ate from her thalibut she would never come and sit with us on the table. It felt unjust and I knew I am a part of t...
Women in Hindi films are often portrayed as the weaker sex, who let the men in their life make all the major decisions for them. However, Gera decided to reverse the trope and gave her film a female protagonist who is more mature than the man in her life. “Cinema makes us think that somehow men decide better. Ratna is clearer and her life is harder...
“Tillotamadid justice to maintaining her dignity of being a cool woman even when she has been in all kinds of difficult situations, that was the soul of the character that she hung too. And another thing is she being an optimist, in a hands of a lesser actor she may come across as silly or naïve.” She adds, “To me, that is important because that is...
Gera shares that it was not so easy to write Ashwin’s character, there was a fine line, "you can’t be disparaging, or patronising. It would be so easy for him (Ashwin) to help her (Ratna) because he has the money. But how do you do that without being disrespectful?" Speaking about actor Vivek Gomber who essayed the role of Ashwin, she says "it was ...
Gera also points out that through Ashwin she wanted to highlight how men in positions of power have a mask, and we do not know who they are. For Ashwin, she says “He uses a certain restrain and we don’t know who is he really, he has put on this mask of a dutiful son. And that is the truth for so many men in our society.” Here is our conversation wi...
This story came with maturity. Indian society is extremely classist to the point that it is reminiscent of racial segregation in the 50s in the United States… except that in India, nobody is fighting for equality. We accept this injustice as the norm.
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DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: ROHENA GERA PRODUCER: Rohena Gera, Brice Poisson CINEMATOGRAPHER: Dominique Colin EDITOR: Jacques Comets, Baptiste Ribrault COMPOSER: Pierre Aviat RUNTIME:99 min MINUTES LANGUAGE: Hindi, Marathi COUNTRY: INDIA CAST: Ahmareen Anjum, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
