Seeing like a Feminist: Representations of Societal Realities in Women-Centric Bollywood Films (FilmAsia2014) from bollywood films rape sex Watch Video

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✓ Published: 27-Oct-2015

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(6116) One of the most notable contemporary trends in Indian cinema, the genre of women oriented films seen through a feminist lens, has gained both critical acclaim and sensitive audience reception for its experimentations with form and cinematic representations of societal realities, especially women�s realities in its subject matter. The proposed paper is based on readings of such women centric, gender sensitive Bollywood films like Tarpan, Matrubhoomi or The Dirty Picture that foregroun