The Female And Bollywood

Films are said to hold a mirror to society by not only representing it, but also influencing it in the way in which people perceive various aspects of their own lives. The gender of the actor has often dictated certain stereotypes, but in recent years, more evolved roles for females have begun to emerge.

The proportion of female-centric movies has risen in recent years.Contemporary movies portray women as more independent, confident, and career oriented, in contrast to the more docile and homely figure of the idеаlized traditional “Indian” woman. This image of the new Indian woman successfully blurred the boundaries between the traditional and the modern.

The film Raazi, is another concrete example of the fact popular culture can hint at the notionsof patriotism and honour without providing the viewer with provocative and polarised dialogue, and how the female, in all her gentleness, is still a force to be reckoned with. When asked what drove her to make the film Raazi, director Meghna Gulzar replied- “For me, the core thread of the story, which is the girl’s journey, was what stood out for me and that is what I picked out to make a film. In fact, my father, when I first told him… because this book had first come to him… he couldn’t understand why I would want to make this film. But there were layers that I saw, and that he saw later when he read the screenplay.”

. Gender equality in Bollywood is largely still a work-in progress, which will only witness concrete evolution when continues to give room for dynamic roles for women.