Top 5 Bollywood Movies that depicted feminism beautifully.

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Bollywood been a restricted place for women empowerment and shown women as per the societal build up norms to be beautiful, know household work, humble, weak, dependent and should treat her husband like a god, this image depicted in the movies in the 80s and 90s movies mostly. The female oriented roles were rare and screen timing of women in the movie were rather less than hero’s in the movies.
However with a thankful awakening of filmmakers have realized how important it is to portray female oriented roles and give them more screen timing to show some empowerment through them. Movies were always been a big part of everyone's life so it became important to change the wave of thinking. Movies in 90s not only shows women weak but also shows casual sexism, body shaming, racism and use them as a sexual entity to entertain men casually like women were entitled to be in these conditions. These thoughts through movies got into the societal thinking and created on acceptance for this kind of behavior. Here are some empowering movies for you.

1.Queen

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At first comes my favorite movie with beautiful story and amazing empowering songs represent a very relatable character of a simple girl named Rani from a stereotypical but supporting family. His father runs a sweet shop and fell in love with a boy named Vijay her family friend. They were going to get married but just before some days of marriage Vijay dump her saying  “our status don’t match” and she got heartbroken and lock herself in her room for some days and realized that this is the time I want to fulfill my dream to go Paris for her honeymoon even though she don’t have partner this time but she want it and even convinced her parents and been there for solo honeymoon. She meets new people made friends and learn new things and eventually dumps her fiancée (Vijay) when he chases her to apologize for what he did and want to marry her now. The film is successful on showing self-love as a journey.

2.ENGLISH VINGLISH

This film shows a journey of a housewife named Shashi played by none other than stunning Sridevi. Shashi takes care of her family and runs a ladoo (Indian sweet) making business from her home only even though she handle so many things alone but still her family always crack jokes on her bad English speaking skills mainly her daughter and husband. After soo much humiliation she got a golden chance to learn English when she been to her sister’s daughter wedding  in New York. She joined classes for that (English learning classes) and got surprised by how other people see her as an entrepreneur and not as a housewife whose entire life revolves around her family even after not getting any respect or gratitude from them. At the end on the wedding day she spoke a speech in English infront of everyone and stunned everyone with her excellent speaking skills and touchy story. This story depicts that how being confident about yourself is a way to self love .

3.HIGHWAY

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This film is about a girl name Veera, a young bride to be who got kidnapped by a gangster because she been to highway for some space before her marriage at night. Even though in the starting the kidnapper seemed rude to her but still they end up falling in love with each other and in some last scenes of movie she fulfilled her dream of moving in with her partner in a small house in the Himalayas. She actually moved in the house in the Himalayas but after a great twist you will get to know about the twist when you watch this movie by yourself no more spoilers. This movie also showed us that every story doesn't end up as happy as we think it should be, just enjoy the moments which you have and be happy

4. THAPPAD

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This movie represents the real issue that needs to be fought, in order to get women on an equal platform. It represent a normal household women slapped by her so called good husband when she stop her husband from fighting with his colleague in a house party. At that moment she slowly realized that it was a wrong relationship or marriage and decided to file a divorce. Everyone around her questions her “why you are taking one slap so seriously it’s just a slap” but she excellently answers the question with just one line that “Ya it’s is just a slap but he was not allowed or entitled to do that”. This movie clearly represent even a little bit of voilence is not acceptable in any relationship by any gender and exploitation of any gender is also not acceptable.

5. RAAZI

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Last but not least here comes one of the best movie of Alia Bhatt based on true story of a girl named Sehmat an undercover RAW Agent. Before the 1971 Indo-Pak war India set some undercover plans to spy on Pakistan activities. According to that plan she got trained and married to Iqbal (played by Vicky kaushal) her father’s friend son and a military officer in Pakistan. She followed the plan even when her life was on stake because she was living in Pakistan and any mistake could be life risking for her but still she gave many important information to India and saved many lives in war. She done this all with being undercover all the time and balancing both her characters of wife and undercover spy. This movie shows the inner struggles she go through in these times and clearly depicted that women were always been compatible to men.
If you want me to write about more feminist movies suggest me in comments. Good day to all.