Tag Archives: women in indian cinema

Through the Lens, Brightly: Women in Cinema, Women at Work, authored by Shoma A Chatterji, unearths how the ‘working woman’ has been presented in films directed...

This article, by Saraswathy K Bhattathiri, is an intervention into various movies which narrate issues of gender role reversals and how it counters their hierarchal idea of male construct....

Exploring the representation of women in popular Hindi cinema within the broader socio-political landscape of post-colonial India, Tumpa Mukherjee probes the impact of women’s movement on the...

Analayzing Aparna Sen's Bengali movie 'Suttee' and its protagonist, Uma, played by Shabana Azmi, and connecting the film to the history, tradition and Hindu myth of the Sati.