Laadla has always made me think if cinema has always promoted hate against educated, working, career oriented women or women in positions of power or women who have been given freedom by parents to speak or work the way they want?
Judaai has also shown educated, foreign returned Jhanvi as obsessed with a married man who is father of 2 kids.
Most films and serials seem to show working or outspoken and highly educated or outspoken women as characterless or loose or vamps or badly behaved or someone who needs to be tamed and taught a lesson by a man or has too much ego.
Some older films like Jeevan Dhaara, Ek hi bhool show it as some form of torture for a woman to work as if it was some majboori due to lack of male earning members in family.
Anupam Kher in Laadla treats his daughter as someone who needs to be tamed or is spoiled and he is willing to marry her off to a mechanic in his factory to tame her and teach her a lesson.
Why? South films like Padayappa, Manan also show working or urban woman as a vamp and bitch who is best rejected or needs to be tamed and a rape attempt or beating by male will set her right. And that only a village belle or less educated girl is nice.
Aandhi has also shown female character as either spoiled or regretting her career. Aaina shows Amrita Singh as sort of a vamp for being competitive or wanting to pursue career in modelling and films and her sister Juhi who is gharelu, submissive and sits home is better.
Films nowadays also sort of show urban or educated girls as loose or professional women as lacking something in life or having affairs or feeling 'complete' only if they get a BF or husband.
Why usually show working or ambitious or career oriented or urban, NRI, established women as vamps or someone who needs to be tamed or taught a lesson? Why promote hate against outspoken or powerful women or show woman attains success by compromising only or becomes a wasteful mess later like women shown in Fashion, Satta, Heroine? So only girls in Barjatya or Johar films whose only dream is to marry a rich NRI are okay. Others are vamps or characterless, mannerless, drain on parents and husband or need to be tamed by hero or husband or villain?
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