GENDER AND FILM: REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN INDIAN REGIONAL SPORTS FILMS

Indian film industry is one of the largest cinema hubs in the world and the Indian film stars are renowned for the
astounding performances in the Indian films and the foreign films. Apart from the dominated Bollywood films there
are many regional language films also across the country such as Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi etc. Tamil film
industry centred at Chennai, Tamil Nadu is India’s second largest film industry in terms of films produced and
distributed.
There are many films in Tamil industry portrayed men as sportspersons and characters, but only a few movies
represented women as sports players. The present study focuses on the in-depth analysis of the representation of
women in Tamil sports films and how the so-called Kollywood industry constructs women sports characters. The study
also explores the representation of gender in films and women empowerment.
The study titled “Gender and Film: Representation of Gender in Indian Regional Sports Films” aims how gender and
women are portrayed in Tamil sports films and how they act and survive the social stigma and stereotypes and succeed
their goal. Both films discuss the plights and problems facing women sports players while succeeding their goal and
pointing fingers towards the representation of women in society. Mixed methodology is used for the study. Qualitative
scene by scene analysis and quantitative content analysis with coding