Substance use depiction in women characters: Content analysis of systematically selected Hindi movies over three decades
There seems to be an increasing trend of use of alcohol and other psychoactive substance use, amongst female characters in Bollywood, with negative consequences rarely shown. The impact of these depictions on Indian viewers especially women needs further study.
Authors
- Snehil Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5498-2917)
- Alok Agrawal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0744-7660)
- Atul Ambekar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1116-7741)
- Udit Kumar Panda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6054-3654)
- Ravindra Rao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-1462)
- Swati Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1570-4927)
Institutions
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur (IN)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal (IN)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar (IN)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian Journal of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry_407_25
- Primary Topic
- South Asian Cinema and Culture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00