Portrayal of Women from Stereotype to Empowered in Film Studies

Abstract

Nowadays, without films, we can't really imagine contemporary India society. Although this is Unable to conceptualize a film without a 'story.' A film must 'tell' and 'show' Story, unravelling layer by layer, introducing the magic of the silver narrative on the screen. The stories rooted in culture are praised by the viewer. More so, if they are widely acknowledged in oral or written form, right from the beginning, there has been an indelible connection between literature and films. The policy begins with depictions of women protagonists in mainstream Bollywood films. This topic is considered appropriate because women are a large part of the population of the country and their on-screen representation is thus critical in deciding the promotion of current stereotypes in the country in the society . The paper begins with a discussion on the field of feminist film criticism and how mainstream Hindi Cinema has restricted itself to defined sketches of womanhood. Cinema has limited itself to established sketches of femininity