Analysis highlights how Indian films portray women's struggles in sports, suggesting cultural change is needed.
The study has its focus on some of the Indian movies based on women’s sports where we can see them struggling against the very common patriarchal notion. But they become successful to fulfill their dreams. The study will mainly look into movies like, Chak De! India (2007), Mary Kom (2014), Dangal (2016) and Saand Ki Aankh (2019). A woman dreaming to make her career in sports has to go through so many difficulties in India. Because of the patriarchal notion and an orthodox mind set a sports woman face the lacks of support from the family as well as the authority. So far, the society is concerned, there are only a few numbers of people who are aware or concerned of this fact. Some filmmakers of the India have been putting their effort on representing this issue visually through their movies.
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Dr. Usnis Banerjee (2025) studied this question.
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