7 Women Characters in Hindi Films of 2020 That We Deserve in 2021
Someday, there will be no need to celebrate women characters; we will not write about movies representing the LGBTQIA community, we will not have hashtags like BlackLivesMatter.
There will just be stories and characters and all humans would matter equally. Someday we will not be writing a year-end listicle on women characters from Hindi films. But today is not that day. It s the end of 2020, and let s admit it, women-centric films are still a category while the male-centric ones are ‘mainstream’.
Women in Bollywood have mostly been seen through the male gaze, not only because these movies are written by men, but because women in India have traditionally been viewed in relation to the men she is a mother, wife, partner, daughter to be deified or devoured, but never just a woman deserving of her own story. Yes, even the legendary Guru Dutt is not exempted from this charge.