Portraying Third Gender: A study of select Bollywood Movies
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Over the years the portrayal of third gender in Bollywood movies has been under scanner for their typical stereotyping. The third gender in Indian subcontinent most commonly is identified as “Hijra” over the period of years through media representations and misrepresentations has come to be associated with either as neither male or female, impotent men who dress as females or deceitful characters. Adding the dismal socio-political and economic conditions of third gender in India and their traditional way of earning through alms, the stereotypical character of “Hijra” gets further institutionalized. This paper will however try to break from the stereotypical clutches of portraying the typical clichéd third gender on celluloid and try to analyze some path breaking movies which have been successful in representing very realistic aspects of third gender. The reference period for the study will be more than two decades from 1990-2010, whereby two representational movies from each decade and will studied and critically examined. The paper will seek to focus on the less stereotypical portrayals of third gender and will try to find if there is a gradual shift from the stereotypical generalizations in portrayal of third gender on Indian celluloid.
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Syeda Afshana, Heeba Din
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