Research Symposium

BIO

Hi! I'm a Communication Sciences and Disorders major with an interest of pursuing Audiology. When not in class, you can find me at the ASLC or Strozier Library. A continued interest of mine is Feminism and how oppressed groups like Women are represented in Film.

Women Representation in Bollywood FIlm

Abstract

Bollywood, a commonly used name to encompass Hindi Cinema, grossed 183 billion rupees in the year 2020. With such a big and rapidly modernizing industry, the lack of women in production and acting roles is a problem found in industries worldwide
Largely, societal roles combined with patriarchal attitudes have left most women characters silently in the background or serving roles to further the male characters.
Recently there has been an ever-increasing presence of female directors. This project seeks to evaluate how those women directors present their women characters; it asks if they reinforce or subvert expectations.
The purpose of this study is to determine quantitatively how women characters are illustrated in those Bollywood films directed by a woman.

Keywords: Bollywood, Film, Women