Contesting the ‘Masculine’ Domain: Assessment of Women’s Role in Sports Through Selected Film

Gender/sex divide has always been the part and parcel of any discourse.The problematics of identity is built around male as superior and female as inferior beings.The changing scenario of the universe defines human beings in terms of neoliberalism, globalization, deconstruction of ideas and images, and, above all the way of interpreting everything from a post-structuralist approach has brought forth new ideas and images in the rubric of discourse analysis.Body and physical fitness have always been an issue of debate and discussion since it engages an arena of women's participation in various physical fitness activities and games.The present paper attempts to focus on the world of games and sports as a site where established values about gender have been contested, resisted, negotiated and transformed through the analysis of selected films.Popular culture has always been a powerful medium to challenge the myth that strong and powerful women are not real.The paper will attempt to take up this terrain to focus on women engaged in the world of games and sports to show the present scenario of women's games and sports in the Indian context.