He said, ‘I think there was a time when the audience was eighty per cent male. It’s improved in some pockets. But I think it is still largely male, say sixty to seventy per cent depending on where you are.’ We talked about how difficult it was for women to watch films at the cinema and whether this inequality surprised him. ‘Honestly,’ Roy Kapur admitted, ‘it doesn’t surprise me. It saddens me. But we all know the kind of country we live in. How can we expect the way we watch cinema to be an exception?’
