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I was diagnosed with cancer a year ago in October 2017. Being so lonely in the hospital, I have somehow found comfort in Shoojit Sircar's movie October, Shiuli's initial recovery, and her friend coming to meet her tirelessly.
Many of our movies portray persons with disability as mentally deficient and 'comic relief', but a few notable films have handled these issues with great sensitivity, and find a place in this article.
Tina Sequeira quips about Bollywood actors' abysmal response to the #MeToo movement, often behaving like ostriches rather than use their immense clout to speak up.
The protagonist, a shameless male chauvinist, gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated by women in I Am Not An Easy Man, a thought-provoking Netflix original French-language film (with English subtitles).
The 3 movies I watched that day depicted different versions of womanhood, but there was one thing common to them - the way patriarchy looked at all three with the same lens of objectification.
Bollywood has an obligation, duty, and social responsibility in these times of #MeToo. But their silence proves that they too are enablers of this crime.
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