Media Watch
Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 3
First page : ( 751) Last page : ( 761)
Print ISSN : 0976-0911. Online ISSN : 2249-8818.
Article DOI : 10.15655/mw/2019/v10i3/49689

India of the 1970s and Gulzar's Construction of Gender: Aandhi as a Case for Indian Women

Chamola Deeksha*

SNDT Women's University, India

*Correspondence to: Deeksha Chamola, SNDT Women's University, Juhu Road, Daulat Nagar, Santacruz West, Mumbai, Maharashtra-400 049, India

Online published on 22 August, 2019.

Abstract

This paper examines the social construction of gender by Gulzar in the film Aandhi and maps it with the cultural and socio-political changes that took place in the country during that era. Aandhi¹ is the first Hindi film that narrates the dilemma of a modern woman politician-a space largely occupied by men. Gulzar went against the norms of film making in the seventies and directed a film based on woman politician which broke certain gender stereotypes. Aarti, the female protagonist in the film, wishes to have everything in life at her whims and fancies. She is a non-conformist. She challenges the norms set by society and refuses to become a sandwich between her father's selfish ambitions and husband's patriarchal needs.

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Keywords

Aandhi, gender, Gulzar, India cinema, Hindi cinema.

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