Tracing India's Cultural Tapestry through Cinema

Abstract

Cinema is considered a great tool to shape our society.  Indian society has undergone many changes in economy, the family structure (shift of joint family to nucleus family), structure  of the urban population, youth culture, belief system of the society etc. This paper tries to analyse the relationship between Cinema and society through various cultural and societal artifacts, the media effects on some critical cultural transformations over the last few decades,  trace the communion between Indian Cinema and society in the way to see if it acts like a prism or a mirror.  This study finds out that the framework of Indian mainstream Cinema is still entrenched as it did   in the early days of Indian Cinema. Characters in the movies got  glitzier but a repeat and imitative plots still rules the industry.