Actor Richa Chadha recently announced that she has decided to try her hands at production with a film called Girls Will Be Girls, along with boyfriend Ali Fazal. Besides being her maiden venture, what makes this project more special is her decision to work with an all-female team.

The 34-year-old tells us that it was her director, Shuchi Talati’s idea to aspire to have an all-female crew. She continues, “Shuchi wanted to see what that would do, having only women on board. We have had one round of interviews with some aspirants. Our co-producers in Delhi, who have produced several award-winning feminist indie films, also feel strongly it should be women-led.”

Set in a boarding school in a hill station in north India, the plot of the film revolves around the coming of age of a 16-year-old girl and her relationship with her mother. Talati’s last film, A Period Piece, had a largely-female crew and she found it to create a nurturing and supportive environment. This influenced the duo to push for an all-female team for this project.

Chadha feels that this move holds the potential to change a lot of things across film industries everywhere. “I think it’s a great, positive, social experiment. I experienced a certain freedom from male expectations, from dressing up, etc in my last year of education at a girl’s college... I don’t know if it’ll usher in a revolution but I definitely think it’s worth trying,” confesses the actor, who is currently busy filming for another project.