Abstract
Cinema Industry is a popular form of mass media believed to entertain. This experience helps the audience to skip to the world that is ascetically different from the real world, the land which helps them to escape from the daily drudge of life. Cinema is a popular form of art medium which plays a vital role in reinforcing dominant cultural values, constructing images and molding opinion. This research article deals with the portrayal of women in mainstream cinema “Bollywood”. It is important to examine this issue as women are the large part of country’s population and therefore their representation on screen is essential for determining the existing stereotypes in society. This paper will investigate about how mainstream Hindi cinema is restricted with limited defined sketches of womanhood. It will also examine about whether the mainstream Hindi Cinema has been successful in representing women’s different shades through celluloid screen in a society with patriarchal values. The data collected for the research work is secondary. This study is exploratory and the method used for research is qualitative.
Highlights
India was first introduced to cinema in the year 1896 by Lumiere Brothers in Bombay
Dhundiraj Govid Phalke popularly known as Dada Saheb Phalke is considered as the Father of Indian Cinema produced the first indigenous film (Silent), Raja Harishchandra in 1913 and this movie enabled the rise of the cinema industry in India
It is difficult to come to a proper conclusion when it comes to the portrayal of women in Hindi Cinema
Summary
India was first introduced to cinema in the year 1896 by Lumiere Brothers in Bombay. Dhundiraj Govid Phalke popularly known as Dada Saheb Phalke is considered as the Father of Indian Cinema produced the first indigenous film (Silent), Raja Harishchandra in 1913 and this movie enabled the rise of the cinema industry in India. Hindi Cinema popularly known as Bollywood has played a major role for reference of Indian culture in the century. In the patriarchal society like India, still the cinema industry deems to portray women as in realistic world. In the movie Paroma, woman is portrayed as a traditional Hindu wife who is deprived of her freedom and is detained by her www.psychologyandeducation.net emotional attachment with the family.
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