Wednesday, April 30, 2014

7 ways Bollywood is contributing to rape culture in India...

Bollywood, churning out films at a rate of a thousand per year, is far and away the largest film industry in the world. More pertinently, at a viewership around 50 million, the industry reaches more Indians than any other cultural phenomenon.

With a few damning exceptions, mentions and depictions of rape in Bollywood movies are anti-rape, featuring a man protecting a woman, or characters condemning the act. Bollywood does not condone nor glorify rape.

That said, Bollywood does condone a culture of misogyny and sexual harassment that contextualizes and allows rape.

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The ubiquity of Bollywood in every aspect of Indian culture has left the country devoid of conventional role models, apart from film celebrities and cricket superstars. Therefore, it is common for Indian men to idolize the male leads of Bollywood movies, many of whom condone a mindset of violence and glorify dominance.

As with many commercial film industries, Bollywood too establishes what is cool. Deepanjana Pal told BuzzFeed that Bollywood has chosen to market strong men who can dominate women as an ideal just as women who submit to men and find fulfillment in life when they are claimed by a man are the feminine role models. Full story...

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