For ages i ve been listening to critics crying thr heads off complaining abt the male domination in the malayalam film industry... Feminists have been lockin horns with the actors for extending thr domination from the real world to the reel world... The latest came tirade was in an article on indian express.... Actually it had nothin to do with film.... It was criticizing(as usual) the recent series of public interest advertisements from the KSEB advising ppl to conserve energy by switchin off all the electrical appliances esp durin the peak load hours.... It is the actors who "chastise" the women 4 wastin power.... This makes the writer wonder whether it is yet another form of female oppression.... What this did was, all the opinions; regarding the inefficiency of the board n the imbecility of the ads; which the writer had built up till then, where destroyed in an instant... What it also did was that it got me thinkin on why everyone is so hell bent on portrayin malluwood as the haven of Male Chauvinistic Pigs...
I confess that i am neither a qualified film critic nor a multi-lingual film expert.... But from what i ve seen, it is only the english movies that give the fairer sex their fair amount of time in the limelight... All the indian film industries; whether it be bollywood, kollywood,tollywood or mollywood; r more or less male dominated... The reason is tat films r more or less a reflection of the society... They all ve some society as the backgrnd nd hence will also inherit the goods nd evils from them... Western Society, even with all its handicaps, is among the most gender equivalent communities in the world... There they treat ppl as individuals with the same rights in everything not as men nd women.... Thus in almost every film v ve a female lead with the same importance as tat of the male protagonist.... Even in films tat dont need a female character thr ll be one by the side of the hero till the end....
Our country has always had a male dominated society... This is the case north south east n west and this is wat is on display in all the woods mentioned earlier.... How many hindi movies r thr with powerful female roles... U may come up with examples like Bandit Queen or Mother India or even Black... But try as u might u still find tat they only form a miserly minority.... Malayalam films also have such occasional instances of female grandeur... Thr r other woods in the above list that dont have even a single movie of this genre(actually most of them ve never had a project tat cud be categorized as a good movie. All they do is churn out trash after trash)...
Then y r malayalam movies always made the victims.... One reason cud be tat actresses in our industry stay in business for a very short period after which they get married... The ideal example is manju warrier.... But thr counterparts in bollywood stay in the industry till their mascaras can no longer hide thr wrinkles, gettin into new affairs every couple of months, creatin controversies before finally settlin down for marriage... I assume tat this creates a false impression regardin thr talents as an actress n tat may be the reason y they r never criticized....
I confess that i am neither a qualified film critic nor a multi-lingual film expert.... But from what i ve seen, it is only the english movies that give the fairer sex their fair amount of time in the limelight... All the indian film industries; whether it be bollywood, kollywood,tollywood or mollywood; r more or less male dominated... The reason is tat films r more or less a reflection of the society... They all ve some society as the backgrnd nd hence will also inherit the goods nd evils from them... Western Society, even with all its handicaps, is among the most gender equivalent communities in the world... There they treat ppl as individuals with the same rights in everything not as men nd women.... Thus in almost every film v ve a female lead with the same importance as tat of the male protagonist.... Even in films tat dont need a female character thr ll be one by the side of the hero till the end....
Our country has always had a male dominated society... This is the case north south east n west and this is wat is on display in all the woods mentioned earlier.... How many hindi movies r thr with powerful female roles... U may come up with examples like Bandit Queen or Mother India or even Black... But try as u might u still find tat they only form a miserly minority.... Malayalam films also have such occasional instances of female grandeur... Thr r other woods in the above list that dont have even a single movie of this genre(actually most of them ve never had a project tat cud be categorized as a good movie. All they do is churn out trash after trash)...
Then y r malayalam movies always made the victims.... One reason cud be tat actresses in our industry stay in business for a very short period after which they get married... The ideal example is manju warrier.... But thr counterparts in bollywood stay in the industry till their mascaras can no longer hide thr wrinkles, gettin into new affairs every couple of months, creatin controversies before finally settlin down for marriage... I assume tat this creates a false impression regardin thr talents as an actress n tat may be the reason y they r never criticized....
Ne other reasons cotinue to escape me.... But one thing has to be cleared... We watch movies for entertainment... So y dont these ppl let us enjoy the films irrespective of whether it is male dominated or female dominated nd criticize the movies for wat they r worth... Wat does gender difference have to do with enjoyin a gud movie.... In this world whr everyone is demandin 4 reservations, v can only hope tat the ladies dont go up in arms demanding sops to ensure tat they get enuf lead roles in movies...
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Man you've to stop using those short forms.. 'll' 'nd' etc...
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