A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Study of Gender Bias in Indian Cinema

Psychoanalytic feminism is a theory of oppression which asserts that men have an inherent psychological need to subjugate women. The root men’s compulsion dominate women and women’s minimal resistance subjugation lies deep within the human psyche. Indian film industry has been phallocentric depicting mainly male dominated narrative structure whereas are reduced marginalized roles only glamorize hero-centric set up. These films rarely portray their isolated worlds because this subject would be commercial back preventing audiences from hitting theatres. This stereotyped representation always criticized by feminist critics. Laura Mulvey, one most influential critic in her 1975 seminal essay “Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema” criticizes patriarchal control for-profit nature cinema using psychoanalytic theory. Considering Mulvey’s theory, research paper attempts explore how social construction patriarchy determines gender stereotyping & phallocentrism seeks examine various factors behind misrepresentation cinema. further intends take into account why centric receive huge success as compared female ones.