Abstract
This chapter examines how both the appreciation and criticism of Akhtar’s cinematic work is overwhelmingly oversimplified and unidimensional, missing out on engaging with the layered feminist perspective in Akhtar’s work. This chapter presents a critical discourse analysis of the popular criticism of Zoya Akhtar’s directorial ventures through a combination of textual analysis and interviews with India’s leading film reviewers while also questioning the perception of her work from the audience’s perspective by examining the significant corpus of user-generated content on social media using netnography. This chapter will discuss the perceptions of a successful woman filmmaker in the Indian context, especially in comparison to her male counterparts, where the pressure to tell a story in a certain manner may possibly be a function of her gender and class, leading to questions of how concepts of power and bias influence the reading of her work.
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