A glance at a poster of any of the aforetance films will tell you that female character can be removed from this universe, and the film will go on just as smothly. And then, there are those films where the top actresses Claim Equal Estate on the poster, have the same of screen time as the man, but they are present in a highly regressive fashion. In the last couple of years, films like teri baaton mein mein aisa uljha jiya, mr and mrs mahi, bawaal, satyaprem ki katha has been promoted as love stories (within some or the Other) Films have a fundamental problem at their core – all of them see women as lesser beings.

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The morally questinal teri baaton mein aisa uljha jiya

Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor in teri baaton mein aisa uljha jiya.

Shahid kapoor and kriti sanon-starr teri baaton mein aisa uljha jiya was presented as a love story between a man and a ‘woman’, who is actually a robot. As you watch him suppose in love with her, you realize that he probably loves her because she can say no to him. She is a robot who just says ‘yes’. She is a ‘woman’ who is designed to obey his commands, and does not have the capacity to argue with him. There is no question At this point, you wonder if this is even a ‘love story’ or you are watching a man with a sir-like human doll. But the film never addresses the psychology of a man who actively chooses to have a slave that servs him round the clock and is always there to inflate his. The film, very bluntly, literally kilos the ‘woman’ the moment she starts disobeying. The filmmakers chose to present the robot in a woman’s form, even thought this could have been a man, but perhaps, it was something of fantasy of them.

Satyaprem ki katha, where katha beows the bystander in her story

In satyaprem ki katha, starring kartik aaryan and kiara advani, where the woman says no to physical intimacy to her newly wedded husband, peeple started application ‘wokness’ Basics of a Consensual Relationship. It was almost as if people were so overwhelmed by his understanding of consent that they chose to look when he appointed himself as saviour. Satyaprem (sattu), played by kartik, is an unemployed man who somehow gets married to katha, played by kiara. As soon as she confides in him. Sattu Announces in a Huge Family gathering that katha was raped, and she looks at him shell-shopted. In his opinion, this is how she should deal with her fear but he never bothers to ask how she feels about it. He even decides the legal course that katha must take without checking with her. The film is constant corners katha and talks about her like she is not even in the room, just so it can portray Sattu as a saviour. The title of the film itself announces that katha belongs to satyaprem, as if she is no one in this universe without him.

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Shraddha Kapoor in Stree 2.

‘Stree kuch bhi kar sakti hai?’ No

In a universe where we are told ‘Voh Stree Hai, Voh Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hai (She is a woman, she can do anything) ‘, you find out that she is just as power as any other film. Star 2, Starring Shraddha Kapoor in the title Role, Builds Itself up as the story where the woman is the supreme being. She even tries to save the day but the end, it is rajkummar rao’s vicky who has to be trained to save everyone care her powers are just not enjoy. She is an immortal mythical being but she is shown to be lesserful than a regular human man. Here, it feels like the filmmakers are having their cake and eating it too. They get to have a film which appears to have a strong female protagonist but ultimately, they are making a film where a woman dances. “Aaj Ki Raat” While trying to lure the mail monaster.

The doctor mrs married to a man-child mr

This Idea of ​​a woman who can do everything is terribly misrepresented in a film like mr and mrs mahi, starring janhvi kapoor and rajkummar rao. The mrs in the title is a doctor who must have spent decudes but the mr swoops in and tells her to give it all up so he can coach her to be a cricter. He did not care if things as a doctor or a cricter, he just wants a project for himself that can get him some glorry, and in it at the Attempt, she becomes the collateral dish. The film refuses to acknowledge his manipulation and gaslighting Behaviour and somehow tries to make us believe what we are watching is a ‘love story’ of some kind. At one point, the mr convinces her that studying medicine was dad’s dream and not hers, and she should instaad follow the path he is showing her, and like a lost lamb, she starts.

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The ‘bawaal’ of a love story in auschwitz

This Idea of ​​a lost lamb is following the man in her life is repeatedly pushed into our film’s narratives. A film like bawaal chooses to tell its story through Varun dhawan’s Aju and not through Janhvi Kapoor’s nisha. The film is presented as a ‘love story’ with a questionable world II backdrop, and you wonder why a sorted woman like her is made to spend time with him. He rejects for being lesser than him because of her medical condition but the film somehow makes it her job to turn him into a better person. It’s as if she has been given homework she never asked for and now, she has to do his homework as well.

In most of these films, men are exacempic Problematic, to a degree that you wonder if the people make this film Find this beauty to benohour and the woman are constantly put down to the winding actress. Playing them. It is repeatedly highlighted that is a man-woman relationship, and in that order.