5 Empowering Women From OTT To Inspire Everyone Around!

There are many women-centric movies and shows on the platter of OTT that we get. While many fail to reach the message they intend, some shows empower more than they intend. Here's our favourite pick of empowering women shows and movies to inspire everyone around. 

These women will surely move your spirits as they did mine, check the list below!

5 Empowering Women From OTT:

1) Four More Shots Please! on Amazon Prime Video:

The coming-of-age show is a pop culture dramedy about four millennial women from urban arcs of society navigating through the roller coasters life throws at them. These women in the show were breaking conventional societal norms, defying taboos, and being unapologetically full of flaws because that's what humans are supposed to be—real, which mostly women are forgotten to be. No, this show is not just about rebellious women frustrated by their chains of society; it is about female friendships, love and life blunder, emotional turmoil, vast diversity in their backgrounds, and yet standing through every thick and thin together in their journey of self-discovery, maybe through some tequila shots.

2) Aarya on Disney+Hotstar:

Aarya Sareen, played by Sushmita Sen, is a fierce, resilient, and bold woman who can do it all. Above all, she is a female alpha mother who can go to any extent to save her children. A 360-degree transition in life from a housewife to a single mother forced by circumstances of life to turn into a mafia queen is what I would imagine a modern-day Durga would look like. From juggling her way through life to parenting the right way with troubling children with love and patience when a heart is filled with grief, rage, and a lot of lack of feeling loved, Aarya does it all, proving the strength of both anger and love.

3) She on Netflix:

Women's sexuality is always questioned, shamed, and suppressed by patriarchal society. And this series made me realise why. Not because it is a "precious" thing to be treasured," but because it is one of the most powerful strengths that, if women are restrained, they can even learn to use in the right way. Bhumika Pardeshi in the show is the most emboldening example of how a timid constable is turned into an untamable and strongest force as she learns to use her sexuality to control everything around her. The show is not just about women's sexuality but finding strength within instead of exploring and learning it through things around them while struggling through the hardships of life and emotions.

4) Scoop on Netflix:

The show is about an unapologetically ambitious single woman coming from an abusive past to swim through her life. Jagruti Pathak played by Karishma Tanna is an over-the-top journalist who is committed to her work, excelling at every checkpoint, achieving every flag post, and doing it all through "jugaad" which is labelled as corruption in her image. The show depicts how society tries every way to pull down an ambitious woman and if they fail to do so, they use it against her for their own nasty profits. From slut shaming as it is hard to gulp a woman can get her way up with her qualities, to every friend turning foe when they were neck down the filthy mud ground she was put in, Jagruti Pathak fights it all with her family, from mental torture to her career at stake, she was an inspiring woman with the flick of hope and spirit to being in worst circumstances and still managing to be kind, yet standing strong. 

5) Tarla on Zee5:

The biopic movie featuring Huma Qureshi as celebrity chef Tarla Dalal is not just her life story but a touching story of a woman exploring her talent through her hobby and turning it into a passion that is still admired. A simple housewife in times when a man's cooking was an art and a woman's cooking was an essential skill, Tarla turned cooking into an art irrespective of gender, proving all conventional myths wrong. From a home cook to a cookbook author and infamous cooking show chef, Tarla won many awards and many more hearts, working her way up from giving life to her dreams through turning a hobby into a passion and her identity.

6) Saas Bahu aur Flamingo on Disney+Hotstar:

This show is a cocktail full of sweet, bitter, salty, sour, and sweet tastes. After decades of the long portrayal of women in flawless fashion, this show depicts women not just in grey and full of flaw shades, but women owning it all, being the lady bosses and badasses in their own way. While the world is against this trio of mother-in-laws and two daughters-in-law for their drug cartel, These fierce women teach us survival when the world is against us and putting our foot down through it all.

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