In Bollywood, Women were seen as less prominent than men for a long time, but that equation has changed.
Women have excelled at every step of film-making. Many female directors have contributed to the cinema with some of the most beautifully depicted movies. They have proved themselves and made the world proud of their achievements. Here is a list of some of those beautiful movies:
1. English Vinglish
Directed by: Gauri Shinde
English Vinglish, starring Sridevi, told the story of a middle-aged mother trying to learn English in order to obtain respect from her children and discover a new side of herself. A Dazzling Feel-Good movie. In India, the film was well-received.
Gauri Shinde, Indian Film maker, began her career as a commercial’s director. Another Gem of a movie by Shinde, Dear Zindagi, Starring Alia Bhat and Shahrukh Khan, taught the audience some vital life lessons. Shinde’s style of filmmaking is realistic and meaningful.
2. Talwar
Directed by: Meghna Gulzar
A hardened cop must deal with three differing viewpoints in the aftermath of a brutal double homicide. The case is complicated because the prime suspects are the parents who allegedly killed their teenage daughter.
It is a re-telling of an actual 2008 Double murder case. The story has been told in a Rashomon-style. When numerous characters recount the same event, the stories diverge in ways that are tough to reconcile. It demonstrates how two or more people can have quite different perspectives on the same incident.
3. Dil dhadakne do
Directed by: Zoya Akhtar
A high-class Mehra family gathers with their family and friends in this family drama. The family, together with their loved ones, go on a cruise to commemorate the Mehra’s 30th wedding anniversary, where they have a series of incidents that forever change their outlook on life.
Every character in the multi-starrer Dil Dhadakne Do is wonderfully sketched.
Neelam, she symbolizes typical Indian women in the manner she has to deal with her children condemning her and her husband’s extramarital affair while still sticking to the family.
Ayesha is a powerful and independent businesswoman, but she lacks autonomy in other aspects of her personal life trying to be the “Good wife” and the way she handles it in the end.
4. Fire
Directed by: Deepa Mehta
Sita (Nandita Das) and Radha (Shabana Azmi), two Indian ladies trapped in loveless marriages, star in this film. While Sita is locked in an arranged marriage with her nasty and unfaithful husband, Jatin (Jaaved Jaffrey), Radha is married to his brother, Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a religious zealot who believes in repressing desire. As the two ladies realize how similar their lives are, they become closer, and their connection deepens in ways neither of them could have imagined.
Fire was the first mainstream Bollywood film to show a lesbian relationship, and it was genuinely groundbreaking.
5. Salaam Bombay
Directed by: Mira Nair
Krishna, 11, is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike’s repairs after damaging his elder brother’s motorcycle in retaliation to his persistent bullying, but soon finds himself on the streets of Bombay’s lowest slums. He befriends the drug dealer Chillum and the
gorgeous young prostitute Sola Saal there, all while trying to pay off his family’s debt at a neighbourhood tea stand.
Salaam Bombay hits a chord with its raw and real representation of poverty in India. At the 61st Academy Awards, Salaam Bombay was nominated for Best International Feature Film, but lost to Billie August’s Pelle the Conqueror.
6. Bareilly ki barfi
Directed by: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Bitti is a free-spirited young girl who lives life on her own terms and refuses to be pressed into marriage in the little village of Bareilly. When she meets Chirag Dubey and Pritam Vidrohi, her life changes drastically.
Beautiful performance and the perfect comic timing of the cast (Kriti Sanon, Ayushmann Khurrana, Rajkumar Rao, Seema Pahwa, Pankaj Tripathi) makes it one of the best Romantic comedies out there.
Published by : Gargi Sharma
Edited by : Aaradhana singh
