[icernet] Women on TV and in films: Why so unfair?

[Arul Selvan]

The star-studded show, organised by the FICCI Ladies Organisation was 
billed to be a serious introspection about how women are being portrayed 
in Indian cimena, particularly the new rash of ever-popular television 
serials. Ekta Kapoor's saas-bahu soaps were especially slated to be in 
the line of fire. Prominent film personalities were to examine whether 
the women in her serials, shown either as model mothers and home makers 
or as schemers and plotters, reflected reality. As it happened, the 
seminar on "Women, Cinema and Society" meandered into the usual debate 
on whether the "vulgar portrayal" of women in cinema could be curbed 
through censorship or self-regulation.


Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=42890693