title: Families in Bollywood cinema: changes and context.
abstract: With increasing and rapid urbanization and population changes in India, a growing number of people are migrating from rural areas to urban areas, which brings about major changes in support systems. As a result, the portrayal of families has also changed in Hindi cinema over the last 50 years. Recent family melodramas have focused on an idealized version of joint and extended families. In this paper we use some key Hindi films of the 1960s and of the last two decades to compare how films have changed and how, in view of changing audiences, they have created a version of the family which is far from real. Clinicians need to be aware of these changes while dealing with patients and their families (the latter may have unrealistic expectations of their own family members).
authors.affiliation: University of Bristol Medical School, Senate House, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Deakin
authors.forename: Dinesh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhugra
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D003863:Depression / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D009040:Motion Pictures; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology