Why aren't there any girl composers? - Page 2

very simple answer:

Bec in india girls even does not support other girls for anything....

Just look at our I-F forum almost every girl here hates bhoomi..it was same case for Ankita in past...

Bollywood is Man dominating society where girls are just used to make man feel better..u know how....

so the main problem is girls does not support girls..and bec of that Man's take advantage of it...thats all...

@ ansh08 - why u wrote that in india girl does not support other girl? u r right that a girl always gets jealous of another girl. but why r u associating it with only india. it does not happen only in india. it happens in all country. this nature is present in almost every human being, infact in almost every living being. but it is more in girls than boys. it's one of the basic nature of human being. so u should not have associated it with a country.

^^ add Shruthi Hassan to the known list, she has composed music for telugu/tamil version of "A Wednesday".

Now a day Society is changing. If a good female MD shows up I think all will accept her.
But looks like, not many female musicians are even trying to come in this field.

Originally posted by: anujha

@ ansh08 - why u wrote that in india girl does not support other girl? u r right that a girl always gets jealous of another girl. but why r u associating it with only india.it does not happen only in india. it happens in all country. this nature is present in almost every human being, infact in almost every living being. but it is more in girls than boys. it's one of the basic nature of human being. so u should not have associated it with a country.

I buy ur point...so it's ab all country girl...
and yes it is human nature..but trust me..
lots of man supports man more than girls supports girls...

Originally posted by: thewiseone

Very interesting post indeed! Its most definitely not biology! Music composition takes immense amount of creativity and artistry. These qualities are not in scarcity in women. So it is not genes that we can blame, cuz women are quite capable!

But perhaps, it has something to do with our culture. The women in the old days maybe didn't get the opportunity to pursue this career cuz of our male-dominated industry. I admit that women did make fame in Bollywood back in the old days, but only as playback singers or actresses. They made fame in these areas because these areas NEEDED women. You couldn't have males play female roles in movies and you couldn't have male singers sing to match the female actresses' voices. So these two careers required females and its not as if these portions could have been given to males, but they chose to give to females. However, music direction is one occupation where the gender was not so specific. So here, the preference goes to male composers. i am not saying that they shooed away all female composers back in those days. but im saying that very few women would have taken the initiative and come up and say "i wanna compose" becuz as i said, the industry was so male-oriented. the movie directors, the music directors, the cameramen and etc. were all men, mostly. so less women came out and pursued this career cuz they saw no opportunity. but now its all changing. some women have composed music for some films. so hopefully, we will see a famous woman composer in the future.

I agree!

I just think many careers simply didn't occur to women as ones in which they could succeed until very recently. Recently, we have a lot of women directors showing up. I am pretty sure, the next decade will see a lot of women music directors too.

M.M. Srilekha sister of M. M. keervani also known as m. m. kreem is a well established music director in tollywood.

Originally posted by: sushrutapandey

I just think many careers simply didn't occur to women as ones in which they could succeed until very recently. Recently, we have a lot of women directors showing up. I am pretty sure, the next decade will see a lot of women music directors too.

Sanjay Dutt's grand mother was a music director. Her name was Jaddan Bai. She was music director in 1935.
So how do you say its only recently women are trying to come up.

See the topics below:
http://www.thecolorsofindia.com/interesting-facts/cinema/first-woman-music-director.html