Indian Screen projections against and sometimes favouring GBV

Many articles have been written on Indian cinema or movies of how gender discrimination is done in the Indian society. At the same time cinema, have projected women as an object of sexuality and entertainment. Dowry, prostitution, trafficking, domestic tortures, body shaming, acid attacks, rapes etc. are the violence based on gender. Screen whether it is showing news, Cinema, movies, Bollywood, Tollywood or any regional shows in India has always had a great impact on people. It reflects the society and the society reflects it. It shows the history, the environment and the culture we live in. People of every age enjoy movies or shows. Cinema creates both awareness and emotions. Now it has become an era of screens or digital screen to be more precise. Humans’ habits, psychology and behaviour have evolved out of its impact. Violence based on gender or gender-based violence (GBV) is much visible even today after the heroic launch on the ‘Slogan of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’. Where on one scroll of a screen, the slogan of daughter safety carries and the other shows the news of rape of a woman doctor at her workplace or slaughter into pieces of a woman by her lover himself. All these information at times creates awareness or fear or ideas of crime against women or existing gender-based violence. This is the platform of portrayal or projection of women. The projection now done is to prevent it or sometimes results on provoking it. The paper will try to highlight such Indian screen shows or movies that worked both.

Keywords: screen, movie, gender-based violence, impacts, projection, etc.