{"id":894028,"date":"2026-10-25T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894028\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:42:11","slug":"freida-pinto-praises-indian-films-and-tv-for-showing-women-with-complexities-not-just-perfect-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894028\/","title":{"rendered":"Freida Pinto praises Indian films and TV for showing women with \u2018complexities,\u2019 not just perfect ones |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Freida Since her 2008 debut in the Oscar-winning British film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Freida Pinto<\/a> feels India has transformed in many wonderful ways. She notes that women are now portrayed with greater range, no longer confined to roles that are \u201cjust duty-bound or puritanical.\u201d Pinto is one of nine distinguished Indian women appearing in the 2027 Pirelli Calendar, alongside actor Aditi Rao Hydari<\/a>, musician Anoushka Shankar<\/a>, poet Rupi Kaur, model Lakshmi Menon, and television host Padma Lakshmi.<\/p>\n

Freida Pinto on embracing imperfection on screen<\/p>\n

Pinto, who Sundsbo photographed in a dark pink dress beneath a bougainvillea heavy with flowers, spoke about how the portrayal of women on screen has evolved over nearly two decades. Speaking to PTI at the launch, she said: \u201cIt has changed in many beautiful ways and there are some changes that are very, very welcome, which is, as far as I\u2019m concerned, is the representation of women in film and television. Being able to see all kinds, not just the duty-bound or the puritanical women, but also the ones with their complexities and not perfect. I’m more interested in the things that are not perfect. The things that are perfect are boring and are not relatable”.<\/p>\n

Freida Pinto hopes for a creative explosion<\/p>\n

Best known for Hollywood films such as ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, ‘Immortals’, and Woody Allen\u2019s ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’, Pinto said she is hopeful about \u201can explosion of creativity\u201d in India, where young people are \u201cso forthcoming with ideas and the desire for change\u201d. She added: \u201cIdeas lead to a lot of creativity. And I hope we see a lot more of that. I hope it doesn\u2019t get stunted. I hope it doesn\u2019t get shunned or suppressed. I hope we just see it explode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Freida Pinto on working with Sundsbo<\/p>\n

Reflecting on her experience with Sundsbo, Pinto said she was glad to be part of his vision and valued that he never imposed his own ideas on the shoot. \u201cHe never came with a preconceived notion of what India and what women should look like. He came in once we were done with our fittings and we had chosen the clothes that we feel comfortable in, he shot the way we felt comfortable in. So, there was no real put-us-in-a-box kind of a situation that ever happened. It was very fluid and flowy and always with conversations like, \u2018does this feel good? How does this feel?\u2019 So, in that sense, I feel like you\u2019re leaving a mark of yourself in every photograph that has been captured,\u201d the actor said.<\/p>\n

Freida Pinto and the 2027 Pirelli Calendar<\/p>\n

Photographed between May and September, the 2027 Pirelli Calendar comes as a box set with two separate pockets and features 36 photographs in all, 18 shot by Sundsbo and 18 from a project by Raghu and Avani Rai.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for Freida Pinto<\/p>\n

On the work front, Pinto will next appear in ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, an eight-episode series based on Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s 2008 short-story collection. The show, which also stars Siddharth, will stream on Netflix from December 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since her 2008 debut in the Oscar-winning British film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Freida Pinto feels India has transformed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[374877,341975,196805,88,374876,206,82357,154235],"class_list":["post-894028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-2027-pirelli-calendar","tag-aditi-rao-hydari","tag-anoushka-shankar","tag-entertainment","tag-freida-pinto","tag-movies","tag-padma-lakshmi","tag-pirelli-calendar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}