'Slumdog Millionaire' fame Freida Pinto wants to encourage women-driven projects through her banner. She feels women are more compassionate than men. 

Freida to daily, "I wouldn't like to say that men are not compassionate, but there are two different perspectives to look at it. The way we look at things and objects can be different. "I don't believe that men don't lend themselves to that compassionate side, but certainly the female perspective, when it comes to the films because we are so few of us, has not been fully explored. There are too many stereotypes around female directors as well. Like they don't have stamina, they don't have experience and so on."

"Those are the things that we need to debunk and not who is more compassionate," added by her. 

Freida further stated, "I have the control of the kind of material I pick up, the kind of writer that I want to work with and I am very pro getting female driven stories, a female director, and writers on board. In fact, my first production is about women, made by women, written by a woman and has a woman actor... So, it's amazing. "I do enjoy that sense of empowerment that I have now." 

"I feel that the films that I watch, specifically the Indian films that I watch, are always the ones that have lent itself to little more deeper questioning about a woman's representation in society. I really enjoyed 'Queen' when it came out. 'Pink' and 'Piku' were also great films," said by Freida. 

On doing Hindi films, she said, "First of all, I never started doing Hindi movies. I always started on an international platform, so what do I really miss is having more Indian stories on international platforms. I am really happy with whatever I am doing right now. But yes, I would like to see more stories about Indian men and women on international platform."