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ENSURING SAFETY, DIGNITY AND FREEDOM OF WOMEN

Cinema or motion picture has been defined as the art of colourful moving images.
Since the days of its establishment, it played an important role to bring out the
problems, issues, thinking, and perspective of society. It has been viewed as a
medium through which a larger picture of the society is portrayed on the screen. In
this entertainment world, crime, and courtroom dramas have been popular since the
old days which majorly attract and engage the audience with the twists, turns, and
suspense. These movies have the power to create a negative or positive side of the
justice system because it also serves as a source of knowledge and information. These
movies like Talvar and Damini show vividly that women are unsafe in their own
environments, inside their homes too. Talwar is an open-ended movie which mostly
tried to focus on the unpleasant and prolonged experience of the dentist couple who
were alleged for murdering their thirteen-year-old daughter, Aarushi and domestic
help, Hemraj. The movie started with the discovery of Aarushi’s dead body by her
parents when the maid came into the house on the morning of May 16,2008. After the
body was discovered, the missing servant Hemraj was regarded as a prime suspect
until his partially decomposed body was found on the terrace of the apartment the
very next day. Every woman has the right to live in dignity—free of fear, coercion,
violence and discrimination. Yet, for hundreds of millions of girls and women
worldwide, these human rights are denied. And we must recognize that this is not a
woman’s issue—this is an issue that concerns us all. The Constitution not only grants
equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive
discrimination in favour of women. Presented by Hollywood studio picture,
Philadelphia illustrates a violation of human rights, especially about unjust treatment
or discrimination in the field of employment. As a matter of fact, in the United States
it is illegal for employers to fire their employee simply because she or he has a
disease. As illustrated in the movie, Backett decides to sue (file a lawsuit) against his
firm’s partners for illegally firing him. In the light of Beckett and his family, the
lawsuit will definitely represent a major fight against prejudice, and thus a fight for
justice. In Section 375, a filmmaker is accused of rape by a junior costume stylist. The
filmmaker denies the allegation. In a bid to show the extent to which the accused’s
life is disrupted, the movie shows angry, violent mobs of people waving ‘hang the
rapist’ posters, clashing with the police and demonstrating outside the courtroom
throughout the trial. Ajay Bahl’s Section 375 ends up being an irresponsible,
dangerous film that seeks to dismiss the existence of unequal power structures in
Bollywood and several other industries, ones that makes it easy for rich, powerful
men to oppress and harass women. Within the framework of a democratic polity, our
laws, development policies, Plans and programmes have aimed at women’s
advancement in different spheres. From the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-78) onwards
has been a marked shift in the approach to women’s issues from welfare to
development. In recent years, the empowerment of women has been recognized as the
central issue in determining the status of women. The film’s big twist at the end is that
Rohit and Anjali were indeed in a consensual relationship. However, Anjali was
degraded and humiliated in the course of it, leading her to file a ‘false’ rape complaint
against Rohit, But Rohit lands in jail because the prosecution argues that Section 375
of the IPC says that if there is a considerable power imbalance in a relationship
between a man and a woman, and the latter alleges that she was coerced into a sexual
relationship with the man, he’d be jailed. Violence against women is not inevitable.
Families and communities can change social norms and attitudes. Governments can
put strong laws in place, enforce them and bring perpetrators to justice.The principle
of gender equality is enshrined in the Indian Constitution in its Preamble,
Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles.