Popular culture is very feminine in nature. Popular culture refers to the images and interests of the mainstream masses, something created by the masses for the masses. The first wave identifies the role of the individual, while the second wave looks at political representation and the third wave concentrates on de-claiming women’s body. As Judith Butler states in ‘Gender Trouble’ that the notion of sex, sexuality and gender should be challenged by the 'subversive confusion and proliferation' of categories. The binary oppositions of the male and female should be destroyed. This paper further shows how the class elite system questioned the movement of women’s status and how they used gender imagery to portray women as hapless and to be rescued
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The third gender problem has slowly made its way up to cinema.
Third gender problems represented in Indian movies:
Compared to the mainstream films the third gender films have not made up their place in the film industry. Mainstream movies use the third gender as a part of their film to make it funny eg Chhakke. They are not portrayed as a main protagonist which shows the acceptability of this gender in the society. Third gender is being described as people who neither fall under feminine or masculine gender. LGBT people face a lot of problems in their lives. They are always looked down upon in their work place, schools etc which makes them very vulnerable and conscious all the time. Third genders have taken up films to gain recognition in society. Homosexuality was never individually given up a film, they have surely acted in other mainstream films but the first homosexual film was during the 1970’s. In the 1970’s- 80’s due to the gay right movement they started getting more attention. Due to the visibility in politics they became more observant in the mainstream films. The increasing film popularity has shown its visibility in the society. While other …show more content…
Women in Bollywood have been un-dimensional characters, who are good or bad, white or black. There are no shades of grey. They are distinguished between the woman and the vamp, the wife and the other women. Earlier movies had been inspired by religion, filled with values which portrayed woman as holy, as they could do no wrong. E.g. - Sita. Through the ideas of loyalty and obedience to the husband, Hindi cinema successfully institutionalized patriarchal values and depicted women as submissive wives who would do anything to save their families. Even though these thoughts were criticized by feminist, films portrayed that even though the women was being physically abused she would never leave the husbands house. How real are women in Hindi cinema? Values, Ideals, morals have influenced the way women are depicted in movies. Thus women rather being depicted as a normal woman she is depicted as an elevated person who can do no wrong. They are being portrayed as the other giving no importance to their own desires, ambitions, grievances, and feelings. They are shown as to not belonging to this real and worldly life. For eg Abhimaan (1973) where the wife leaves her thriving career, because she is more talented than the husband to satisfy his ego which shows us how exactly our society reacts. Bollywood actresses believe stayed happily ever in marriages even though
The third gender problem has slowly made its way up to cinema.
Third gender problems represented in Indian movies:
Compared to the mainstream films the third gender films have not made up their place in the film industry. Mainstream movies use the third gender as a part of their film to make it funny eg Chhakke. They are not portrayed as a main protagonist which shows the acceptability of this gender in the society. Third gender is being described as people who neither fall under feminine or masculine gender. LGBT people face a lot of problems in their lives. They are always looked down upon in their work place, schools etc which makes them very vulnerable and conscious all the time. Third genders have taken up films to gain recognition in society. Homosexuality was never individually given up a film, they have surely acted in other mainstream films but the first homosexual film was during the 1970’s. In the 1970’s- 80’s due to the gay right movement they started getting more attention. Due to the visibility in politics they became more observant in the mainstream films. The increasing film popularity has shown its visibility in the society. While other …show more content…
Women in Bollywood have been un-dimensional characters, who are good or bad, white or black. There are no shades of grey. They are distinguished between the woman and the vamp, the wife and the other women. Earlier movies had been inspired by religion, filled with values which portrayed woman as holy, as they could do no wrong. E.g. - Sita. Through the ideas of loyalty and obedience to the husband, Hindi cinema successfully institutionalized patriarchal values and depicted women as submissive wives who would do anything to save their families. Even though these thoughts were criticized by feminist, films portrayed that even though the women was being physically abused she would never leave the husbands house. How real are women in Hindi cinema? Values, Ideals, morals have influenced the way women are depicted in movies. Thus women rather being depicted as a normal woman she is depicted as an elevated person who can do no wrong. They are being portrayed as the other giving no importance to their own desires, ambitions, grievances, and feelings. They are shown as to not belonging to this real and worldly life. For eg Abhimaan (1973) where the wife leaves her thriving career, because she is more talented than the husband to satisfy his ego which shows us how exactly our society reacts. Bollywood actresses believe stayed happily ever in marriages even though