Films, Television and Women

Very well written Ramanujan, completely agree with you. This is not about flipping channels, it’s more about freedom of living in a free society.
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You have your basic two kinds of people who protest the `portayal of women in films`. The first is your typical Shiv Sena `shakha pramukh` type, who goes and vandalizes theatres and roughs up artists for anything remotely antithetical to ``Indian culture``. This is the type that protests Fire, Water, GirlFriend and the other examples that have been quoted here.

There is another type of person who protests against the portrayal of women in films, a quieter type, rather less media-hungry than the type above: these are the people who object to women being depicted as objects of male condescenscion, those who are offended by the sight of a man smugly proclaiming ``Is becharee ka kya dosh``(What`s the fault of this poor helpless creature?) before grabbing a widow`s hand in public view (on film). Movies that end with the female protagonist ``realizing`` her folly of harbouring ambitions and a career, and returning duly chastened to her happy homemaking. Televsion images of dolled-up saas-bahus engaged in the only thing they know- bitching and gossipping- while the `men of the house` wear smart pinstripes and bring home the bacon, occasionally putting in a stern sensible word to resolve disputes among the silly womenfolk.

This is the kind of person who will rarely, if ever lay claim to being ``auratzaat ke maryaada ka paalankarta`` (protector of the virtue of womankind) someone who probably if you crossed in the street would not even strike you as the sort of person who refuses to patronise ``his woman`` just because he probably can.

The exact opposite, in short, of people like the author Ramanujam here.

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Bravo !
A well written and thought provoking piece, this is a really serious subject
wish to read more good stuf from U
keep it up
well done