this week the most discussed hollywood movie trailer was that of the allfemale crime caper oceans 8 a genderbending reboot of the massively successful oceans 11 trilogy that featured george clooney and brad pitt the former featuring a cast led by sandra bullock and cate blanchett is one of the few subversive reboots that began with last years ghostbusters which again went for an allfemale treatment with actresses such as kristen wiig and melissa mccarthy leading the cast and alister chris hemsworth being the eye candywith an ongoing discourse on female representation on and off the screen in kerala is our film industry ready to follow suit will mollywood audience be receptive to a reboot of trivandrum lodge or in harihar nagar featuring an allfemale cast and will the producers back such films with a much bigger budgetfilmmaker vk prakash who is currently busy with prana a multilingual with nitya menen in the lead surely thinks so i think we have space for femaledriven films now if i had made trivandrum lodge with women it would have been interesting as it would give a totally different perspective to the audience everything with a new perspective can work says the director adding that he would love to adapt unni rs anandamargam which only has women charactersthe only criterion he says when making such movies is that it shouldnt be forced you cant decide one fine day that you are going to make a movie with an allfemale cast just for the heck of it you need a subject that demands such as a cast to be successful he saysagreeing with his view siddique who cowrote and codirected in harihar nagar with lal says our audience are very hard to please as they look for logic in films back then if we had tried the movie with women they wouldnt have connected to it but now the society has changed and in kerala there are girls who have just as much or more fun as the characters of the film so such a premise would make for an enjoyable movie he saysin malayalam there have been films such as 100 degree celsius in 2014 girls in 2016 and crossroads this year that said only priyadarshans raakillipaattu released a decade ago was a box office hit but it failed to usher in the trend and box office success is exactly what mollywood needs to get the bandwagon moving again says filmmaker geetu mohandasits like a herd mentality if a movie with an allfemale cast becomes a box office hit it gives confidence to a lot of producers and filmmakers to take up such films she says however the director also explains that the industry is changing from stardriven to contentdriven films if the story is told in a poignant and entertaining manner it will be wellreceived irrespective of the gender of the cast she addsthe scepticism of the producers can hardly be blamed as even the ghostbusters reboot faced a massive backlash from