The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. There have been bollywood films with a heroine instead of a hero. Bollywood nowadays also has girls speaking up and doing their own thing. Let us explore some movies, who made mark in the Indian film industry.
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Lajja: It’s a women oriented social subject. The movie satirizes the honor with which women are placed in society and the restrictions on them. The fact that the four women’s names (Maithali, Janaki, Ramdulhari, and Vaidehi) the ideal Hindu woman’s name, is a message in itself.
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**Chak De India: **Chak De India emphasizes that women may not be physically stronger than men, but can put up a strong fight with undying energy and can match them even in the toughest of sport. The most feisty girl power movie to have come out of Bollywood ever.
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**Astitva: **This movie shows and explains the importance of woman in society. Lot of questions which were explained in the movie like Does a woman have a separate identity within a marriage? Is the identity of a woman always marked with that of her husband’s?
**Daman: **The film follows the story of a battered wife. Daman is a film about one of the darkest facets of the institution of marriage, marital rape among the upper middle classes.
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**Damini: **The theme revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence.
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**Dor: **The film is about two women who come from different backgrounds and how fate brings them together.
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Chandini Bar: It depicts the gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime. The movie is not one of those run-of-a-mill scripts. This is the story of a bar dancer. Tabu’s performance is the biggest highlight of the film. CHANDNI BAR explores the darker side of society.
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Chameli: Chameli is the story of a prostitute played by Kareena Kapoor Chameli is about a single night chance encounter between a prostitute and a bank employee.
The women of Bollywood have had it much harder for succeeding in making it big to carry their fame through the years of a long-term career. With filmmaking becoming so increasingly global, we can’t afford to keep leaving the women behind.