Dear Bollywood, Stop Objectifying Women on Screen!


Dear Bollywood, Stop Objectifying Women on Screen!
The Issue
Is BOLLYWOOD a Blessing or a Devil in Disguise?
Every Bollywood film has women; in fact, most of them are sold on women but the female sex has nothing to rejoice about. For they focus on objectifying women.
Women are seen as eye candy and overly sexualised in most posters. It began with India’s first colour film, Kisan Kanya (1937), and the trend continues with movies such as Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) and The Dirty picture (2011).
India's Rape Culture is directly or indirectly influenced by Indian Movies by Constant Objectification of Women.
A common scene in all grades of film was of a women being molested and a superhuman hero coming to her rescue. If the woman was the heroine, she would be saved. Otherwise, she would be killed brutally and the whole movie would revolve around revenge. Most villains were shown as sexual perverts, and Bollywood had special faces who appeared as rapists in most films they acted. Strangely, the audience loved them in those roles.
There are many film songs that commoditized the female body. Most songs follow a particular format. We might have got used to it or we ignore it, but a whole generation in our country grew up believing that life is like what is shown in film.
Let's take our future in our own hands and sign this petition and save the new generation from coming into the trap of such movies.
939
The Issue
Is BOLLYWOOD a Blessing or a Devil in Disguise?
Every Bollywood film has women; in fact, most of them are sold on women but the female sex has nothing to rejoice about. For they focus on objectifying women.
Women are seen as eye candy and overly sexualised in most posters. It began with India’s first colour film, Kisan Kanya (1937), and the trend continues with movies such as Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) and The Dirty picture (2011).
India's Rape Culture is directly or indirectly influenced by Indian Movies by Constant Objectification of Women.
A common scene in all grades of film was of a women being molested and a superhuman hero coming to her rescue. If the woman was the heroine, she would be saved. Otherwise, she would be killed brutally and the whole movie would revolve around revenge. Most villains were shown as sexual perverts, and Bollywood had special faces who appeared as rapists in most films they acted. Strangely, the audience loved them in those roles.
There are many film songs that commoditized the female body. Most songs follow a particular format. We might have got used to it or we ignore it, but a whole generation in our country grew up believing that life is like what is shown in film.
Let's take our future in our own hands and sign this petition and save the new generation from coming into the trap of such movies.
939
Petition created on 26 February 2021