{"id":119603,"date":"2025-09-04T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119603\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:20:09","slug":"dulquer-salmaan-addresses-criticism-of-cinema-often-catering-to-male-gaze-credits-this-person-for-lokah-being-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119603\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulquer Salmaan addresses criticism of cinema often catering to male gaze; credits this person for Lokah being different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Updated on: Sept 04, 2025 05:47 pm IST <\/p>\n

Dulquer Salmaan, who produced Kalyani Priyadarshan’s superhero film Lokah, celebrated the film’s success in Hyderabad on Thursday.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one recent release that everyone is talking about, it\u2019s the Malayalam film Lokah: Chapter 1 \u2013 Chandra. Dominic Arun\u2019s superhero film starring Kalyani Priyadarshan, Naslen and Sandy was produced by Dulquer Salmaan<\/a>\u2019s Wayfarer Films. Celebrating the film crossing the \u20b9100 crore threshold worldwide, Dulquer addressed criticism of how cinema is usually catered to the male gaze.<\/p>\n

\"Dulquer Dulquer Salmaan said he never experienced success like Lokah in his career. Dulquer Salmaan addresses criticism of cinema catering to male gaze<\/p>\n

Dulquer admitted at the success event in Hyderabad on Thursday that most cinema cater to the male gaze. However, crediting the screenwriter of the film, actor Santhy Balachandran, for Lokah\u2019s authenticity, he said, \u201cSanthy, thank you for giving us a woman\u2019s voice in this film. We are always told that we write and approach our cinema with the male gaze. I don\u2019t even want to say female\u2026if there\u2019s a lady superhero or superstar today and we represented her correctly, all credit to Santhy B<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dulquer also admitted at the event that he had never experienced success like this in his career as an actor. \u201cWe are still trying to process what is happening. For us, Lokah was something always very intimate; it almost felt like a very expensive indie film. We had to get Jakes (Bejoy) to commercialise it. But the way it\u2019s just blown up and everywhere in the country, I have done 40 plus movies, and I have not experienced this as a hero for any of my films. Thank you to the audiences for accepting Lokah,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

About Lokah: Chapter 1 \u2013 Chandra<\/p>\n

Lokah is the first part of a planned superhero series. It became the highest-grossing<\/a> South Indian female-led film, beating films by Anushka Shetty, Keerthy Suresh and Nayanthara. It tells the story of a mysterious Chandra (Kalyani) who is summoned back to India by the leader she follows, Moothon (voiced by Mammootty). Naslen plays her love interest and neighbour, Sunny, while Sandy plays the antagonist, Inspector Nachiyappa.<\/p>\n

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