Comments on: Changing Role of Women in Indian Cinema http://www.bellbajao.org/2009/10/30/changing-role-of-women-in-indian-cinema/ Bring Domestic Violence to a Halt Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sumit Gupta http://www.bellbajao.org/2009/10/30/changing-role-of-women-in-indian-cinema/#comment-168 Sumit Gupta Tue, 11 May 2010 05:39:46 +0000 http://bellbajao.org/?p=1189#comment-168 We need more movies where women are depicted more for their strength, love, character instead of just being a side kick in male dominated movies... Read my take on women in this poem i wrote recently http://www.sumit4all.com/life/a-tribute-to-women We need more movies where women are depicted more for their strength, love, character instead of just being a side kick in male dominated movies…

Read my take on women in this poem i wrote recently http://www.sumit4all.com/life/a-tribute-to-women

]]> By: deepika http://www.bellbajao.org/2009/10/30/changing-role-of-women-in-indian-cinema/#comment-167 deepika Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:45:47 +0000 http://bellbajao.org/?p=1189#comment-167 in parallel cinema the presentation of woman character is only to depict her as a symbol of beauty....who posses no reasoning and intellectual ability. but in twenty first century's commercial cinema woman character portrayed as a protagonist. now she is very much aware about her rights, more psychologically mature, with her own personal identification in society. with all these qualities she is living her life with family having a balance between her profession and family relations. she is leading multy facets role in society. she is coming out from his set traditional role which confined her in the four walls of house. directors like madhur bhandarkar, meera nair, deepa mehta has presented women character in mature way. as cinema is mirror image of society and what cinema presents is soon captured by society, so their movies are working as a wave of feminism to indian society and for the social, moral and cutural development of women in india. in parallel cinema the presentation of woman character is only to depict her as a symbol of beauty….who posses no reasoning and intellectual ability.
but in twenty first century’s commercial cinema woman character portrayed as a protagonist. now she is very much aware about her rights, more psychologically mature, with her own personal identification in society. with all these qualities she is living her life with family having a balance between her profession and family relations. she is leading multy facets role in society. she is coming out from his set traditional role which confined her in the four walls of house.
directors like madhur bhandarkar, meera nair, deepa mehta has presented women character in mature way. as cinema is mirror image of society and what cinema presents is soon captured by society, so their movies are working as a wave of feminism to indian society and for the social, moral and cutural development of women in india.

]]> By: remya http://www.bellbajao.org/2009/10/30/changing-role-of-women-in-indian-cinema/#comment-166 remya Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:48 +0000 http://bellbajao.org/?p=1189#comment-166 most portrayal of women in (especially main stream) cinema is depressing... however there are a couple of Indian male directors who have also given space for some very interesting female characters in their films. Namely Mani Ratnam and Vishal Bharadwaj. Both these directors have repeatedly presented female characters (protagonists and otherwise) who are interesting because they are independent in their thoughts, actions and convictions. watch the female leads in Yuva or even, more recently, Priyanka Chopra's character in Kaminey. These were some refreshing changes... for the most part hindi movies have got only as far as drinking, smoking and pre-marital sex as far as gender equality is concerned. I do hope we'll start looking at things a little big more maturely and deeply with time most portrayal of women in (especially main stream) cinema is depressing… however there are a couple of Indian male directors who have also given space for some very interesting female characters in their films. Namely Mani Ratnam and Vishal Bharadwaj. Both these directors have repeatedly presented female characters (protagonists and otherwise) who are interesting because they are independent in their thoughts, actions and convictions. watch the female leads in Yuva or even, more recently, Priyanka Chopra’s character in Kaminey.

These were some refreshing changes… for the most part hindi movies have got only as far as drinking, smoking and pre-marital sex as far as gender equality is concerned. I do hope we’ll start looking at things a little big more maturely and deeply with time

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