While directing the Hindi political thriller 'Firaaq' in 2008, the actor said she had encountered the "typical mindset" which a woman faces when she "tries to break the barriers."
"When I directed Firaaq, many asked me how is it to be a woman director. But when you direct you do not think whether you are a woman or not," said the actor who was here recently to participate in a discussion on Women's leadership organised by NGO Oxfam India.
For Das, "it is important that different taste and different perspective must be brought in."
"A lot of my feminist friends had said that they were surprised that I did a film on a subject which was not women oriented. But as a woman, we get impacted by different issues, and we react differently to different issues," she said.
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