*Research Scholar, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication, Karnataka State Women's University, Vijayapura, Karnataka, India
**Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communication, Karnataka State Women's University, Vijayapura, Karnataka, India
Online published on 18 July, 2018.
Our world today is increasingly driven by a combination ofinformation and entertainment. values and these are both promoted by the explosion ofdifferent means ofcommunication. especially electronic communication such as satellite Tv, Films and Internet. Films constitute to be a very strong medium ofmass communication. For decades. films have been entertaining the masses with songs and dance. Moreover, it carries responsibility on its shoulders as it reinforces values and introduces trends. Films can bring about radical changes and improve social situation as it influences our social, civil, cultural, political, economic and aesthetic outlook. There has been enormous research and debate over representation ofwomen in mainstream Hindi films. In majority ofthe films, women are shown as "an object" or "commodity". But that concept is undergoing a change. Oflate, there have been films which have portrayed women on a positive note. More and more films portray women to be independent and not submissive and timid. In the male dominated and male centric film industry, women's role is often undermined yet, there has been an increasing trend of female centric films in the recent past. Hindi films are travelling beyond the chartered territories. The paper is aimed to study the films, analyze the role and characterplayed by the women in the critically acclaimed films in the year 2013 and four films have been chosen. The purpose is to examine how real are the women ofour films? The shift in the psyche, attitude and portrayal of women in the films has been studied closely in this paper.
Hindi Films, Women, Independent, Critically Acclaimed, Stereotype, Reality
