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Stereotypes in Bollywood

Bollywood has been a very strong influence on the mainstream public for a long span of time. There were times when a particular dress worn by the lead actress was out in the market the next day. Trivial personality traits like hairstyles, dance moves, eye color, dialogues, luxury items etc were copied and part of the day to day regime. Bollywood was treated like a class that the common public wanted to achieve. Bollywood is a trend setter and has the power to influence people over good, changing thoughts like women education, sometimes bad, and morally incorrect things or behaviours as well. Well, not everything about bollywood was positive. Bollywood has not always given patriotic, revolutionary or powerful films.  It seems over the years that bollywood had enough potential to teach a generation. But instead of driving people out of the misogynist, patriarchal and stereotypical nation, Bollywood flooded it with other unreasonable stereotypes. Here we are looking at the stereotype that

Maqbool

  Maqbool A film by Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd Watch time- 2 hours 41 minutes Available on- Disney+Hotstar, YouTube  Rating- ⭐⭐⭐⭐ View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mamta Gupta (she/her) (@maggu_3050) Maqbool 2004 Cast- Irfan Khan, Tabu By Vishal Bhardwaj Genre- Literary Prerequisites- have walnuts! Because the movie is tougher to crack. The most important question throughout the film was  Nimmi- Miyan, our love was pure, wasn't it ..? Maqbool- yes our love was pure Believe me Nimmi asks the hardest question here. How far is it to fall in love? Till what end is true love? What are the limits of love? Who is the bad one in the story?  Maqbool leaves me with a new definition of love. Which is pretty strange! It is deep. It is confusing and it is beyond...... Maqbool is a film based on the literary work "Macbeth" of Shakespeare. Maqbool truly holds the drama, tension and heavy work of storyline along. The starting 40 mins of the film