Volume : 12, Issue : 11, NOV 2026

EMERGING FEMINIST TRENDS IN REPRESENTATION OF NATION IN HINDI SCREEN NARRATIVES

MISS EESHU SAXENA

Abstract

The concept of nation is one of emotional bond to a culture. Individuals bound together by the emotional identification to a culture constitute nation. Women are the strong foundation and pillars of a nation. The emerging feminist trends in screen narratives are bringing a new representation of the concept of nation. From characters as Gunjan Saxena of eponymous film to Amrita of Thappad (2020), they have defined the contribution of women to nation in unconventional ways by overcoming and demolishing the social norms and codes. However, the concept of nation goes much beyond the borders and boundaries of a political state to entail the quotient of many other parameters like gender equality, quality of life, opportunities for and independence of women. Portrayal of women emboldens the emerging national ethos.

This paper analyses screen narratives of selected popular and critically acclaimed recent web-series namely The Test Case (2017) and films viz. Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020) and Thappad (2020) for studying emerging feminist trends of screen / script narratives in representation of the nation.

Keywords

FEMINIST TRENDS, SCREEN NARRATIVES, DEFENSE AND MILITARY, HINDI WEB SERIES, BOLLYWOOD, OTT, FILMS AND NATION.

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