There is a bit of Tahira Kashyap in all the five female leads of “Sharmajee Ki Beti”, says the director about her first feature film, a passion project that she hopes will make audiences see women in a different light. Tahira, who has been always been a storyteller, first as a writer of books like “The 12 Commandments of Being A Woman” and “The 7 Sins of Being A Mother”, and then as a filmmaker of short “Toffee”. “Sharmajee Ki Beti” chronicles the stories of ambition and struggles of three middle-class women and two teenage girls, who all share the same surname — Sharma.
“I think the first piece of art comes from a place of a lot of purity, a lot of passion. You are passionate about the things that you experience and observe. “All of these five characters, there are three women and two girls, there is some amount of storytelling experience I have observed at the personal level.
.. So it comes from a very pure place of heart,” Tahira said in an interview.
The film, which will start streaming on Prime Video from Friday, features an ensemble cast of Sakshi Tanwar, Divya Dutta, and Saiyami Kher, Vanshika Taparia and Arista Mehta. As a storyteller, the aim was not to be preachy but make people “connect, engage and empathise” with the lead characters, she added. “It should evoke some sort of emotion in the audience’s hearts and their minds and if something reaches their hearts, it will also leave an impression on their minds as well and that’s h.
