AP Human Extra Credit Assignment: The Breakdown of Gender Roles as seen in Indian Cinema

          Traditional Bollywood pictures tend to portray female characters as docile and submissive, and usually secondary to their patriarch. But with the proliferation of ideas about equality if the sexes reaching India through globalization, female characters are beginning to take on more central, independent roles in Indian cinema. Such changes in attitude towards women can be seen in the 2015 comedy-drama Piku, in which the female protagonist has an active sex life and is not subservient to her father. Up until very recently, the trend that female characters in Bollywood followed was one sexual repression and loyalty to their patriarch. This shift in the cinematic portrayal of women reflects the world wide dissolution of traditional gender roles. As women cast off more and more societal limitations, art changes to reveal their elevated social status. 

http://www.academia.edu/15436708/The_Changing_Perceptions_of_Gender_and_Sexuality_in_Indian_Visual_Narratives_A_Case_study_of_Queen_and_Piku