Mumbai: Radhika Apte, who is making her directorial debut with short film Sleepwalkers believes it is incorrect to say that lack of good opportunities often pushes actors to turn towards other aspects of filmmaking.
Starring Shahana Goswami and Gulshan Devaiah, Sleepwalkers is about how sometimes people chose blindness over sight.
The film was shot last year but is yet to be released.
"There is always less exciting things happening for female actors right from the beginning. There are very few projects and everybody is trying to get that project. The reason people turn towards producing films is when they establish themselves, they have the money and resources to become producers. When they enter the industry, they don't have that.
"We have such weird notions that after marriage actresses don't get work and when you start producing or directing it means you are doomed as an actor. We look at things in so black and white, Radhika told PTI in an interview.
The 34-year-old actor hopes more people venture into direction.
Citing the example of actor-director Konkana Sen Sharma, she said, "There are probably only two of us and that is sad. I completely agree that people think she is directing so is it because she doesn't want to act anymore, she is changing departments or she is not getting enough work'.