Mass media,in general is often said to be the reflection of the society.Or atleast that's what majority of people in India conciously or unconsiously tend to believe.While it's arguable whether the media truly reflect the society or not,there's no doubt that media have a big sociocultural influence on the society.
The way women are shown in movies these days is hardly different than those before a decade or a few.Women have been shown to consider being an ideal homemaker as the goal of their life.Leaving few expectations,movies of recent times have hardly shown an 'ideal women' doing anything but being a housewife.Even in those movies where a woman is shown to have more decision power in hand than her husband,the wife is almost always portrayed in badlight. And the end of the movie,she slapped by her husband.Her husband also tells her,'I should have slapped much earlier.'the woman realizes her 'mistakes' repents of the same & the movie ends when everyone appears to be happy.
The same has remained true for the soap operas of earlier times & of recent times.While in many of these soaps, a women has more decision power than their male counterparts,it's very difficult to come across so many such families in real life.Moreover,those women who wear modern clothes & appear very confident more often than not have bad intentions than their conservative & not so-much counterparts.
The way women are shown in movies these days is hardly different than those before a decade or a few.Women have been shown to consider being an ideal homemaker as the goal of their life.Leaving few expectations,movies of recent times have hardly shown an 'ideal women' doing anything but being a housewife.Even in those movies where a woman is shown to have more decision power in hand than her husband,the wife is almost always portrayed in badlight. And the end of the movie,she slapped by her husband.Her husband also tells her,'I should have slapped much earlier.'the woman realizes her 'mistakes' repents of the same & the movie ends when everyone appears to be happy.
The same has remained true for the soap operas of earlier times & of recent times.While in many of these soaps, a women has more decision power than their male counterparts,it's very difficult to come across so many such families in real life.Moreover,those women who wear modern clothes & appear very confident more often than not have bad intentions than their conservative & not so-much counterparts.
