Deepta Mehta Analysis

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Deepta Mehta, took a very brave initiative and decide to direct a few movies which broke the patriarchy and the stereotype. She made two controversial films like Fire in 1996 and Water in 2005 where women were portrayed in non conforming roles. In these movie she came up with a lot of aspects like the wrong beliefs on Hinduism and deeds and also the politically incorrect point. This led to riots in the northern india.
During the shoot of Fire, the public could not take the lesbianism and the fact that women were given a chance to choose. So, the political parties broke out and threatened the director. They warned that they would break the sets and the theatres and hence the film was banned from getting released in Bombay.
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She was always portrayed as the vamp or the stripper as the viewers wanted to see her. Another way in which the women were shown as the man’s comfort was the courtesan dancer. If the man is relieved from his trauma he leaves the courtesan dancers as she was his fling. Here again, the women are considered bad over men. As we see in the movie Mughal-E-Azam, as the courtesan dancer and her feelings were buried alive.
Having a women wearing less clothes,dancing sensuously on screen was is fulfilling the demands of the men. Women have become an eye candy in the movies. Their main role in the Indian cinema is hip and breasts shaking and lack substance. As Vinayachandran said in an interview, “Most roles for women involve glamorous skin show, a vivacious song and dance routine and in supporting the male hero to achieve his goals” (40, 2011). In movies like Hum apke hai kaun and Dilwale dulhania le jaenge where the nature of the camera and how women is itemized is clearly obvious in the songs like didi tera dewar and mere khwabo mein jo aaye. The revealing clothes and objectification of women becomes a fantasy for the audience.
India is giving the female protagonist a very stereotyped role to work on and it depends on the makers of the film whether they want to bring the change in the Indian

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