Filmfare OTT Awards 2025: Richa Chadha Calls Girls Will Be Girls Win Rebellion In 'Testosterone-Driven' Times | EXCL

Richa Chadha was an extremely content producer at the sixth edition of the Filmfare OTT Awards 2025 on December 15. At the awards ceremony in Mumbai, hosted by Amol Parashar and Sayani Gupta, Richa's first

film as producer, Girls Will Be Girls, picked up four major awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Female), and Best Supporting Actor (Female). After the show, Richa reacted to the wins and discussed how OTT has leveled the playing field in many ways.

Richa Chadha reacts to her first win as producer

Speaking with Zoom, the actress shared, "My first producer award and I hope that there are many more. I'm just happy to be here. I've been to many Filmfares. I won my first Filmfare for Gangs of Wasseypur, Best Actress in a Critics category. But what's amazing is because this is an OTT award, I saw some amazing films. Stolen won six awards tonight, Black Warrant, Paatal Lok won, Tillotama [Shome], Sanya [Malhotra], a lot of people who would otherwise not win Best Actor or Film... it's lovely that it's leveled the playing field to some extent. Of course, films are films, but in these times of flux, when we are still figuring out theatricals and web films, this is just fantastic."

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ALSO READ: Filmfare OTT Awards 2025: Richa Chadha Is 'Super Happy' As Girls Will Be Girls Bags Big Honours, Calls It 'Incredible'When asked how makers should protect the art of filmmaking and storytelling in these troubling times, Richa said, "I think you should have the freedom to say whatever you want, and in society, the only difference between an autocratic society and a democratic society is your ability to have that freedom. So essentially it's a freedom war for culture. We have to preserve this culture of telling stories and stories that are tender and joyful. This itself is a rebellion to tell these stories in a testosterone-driven environment."Girls Will Be Girls is directed by Shuchi Talati and is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The night's acting winners, Preeti Panigrahi and Kani Kusruti play daughter and mother, respectively, in the coming-of-age drama set at a boarding school.