Introduction

India is a country in south Asia known to be the most populous democracy in the world with over 1.2 billion people. It's as well the seventh-largest country geographicaly. Its capital, New Delhi, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world .

The wealthy indian culture is marked by a high degree of pluralism due to the diversity of its religions. Induism, buddhism, jainism, sikism are originated there and judaism, christianity, islam arrived in the first millenium, shaping the regions's diverse cultures.

Besides the country was annexed by the british east India Company (wich initially was a trade company) from the early 18th century and colonised by the UK from mid-19th century.
India became independent in 1947 thanks to a non-violent resistance led by mahatma Gandhi.

To all of that follows a cultural syncretism which makes the charm of the country.
Nevertheless India possesses a certain uniquinesse and several elements of India's culture, such as buddhism, Induism, food and Yoga, have an impact all across the world.
The culture of India may be an old legacy of diverse sub-cultures, still, we can underline certain younger manifestations like cricket (from UK) or bollywood cinema.

As it is impossible to summarize all this diversity in one folder, we made the choice of focusing our work on two aspects of this culture. The first part will deal about the art of indian cinema and the second one about the social topic of castes, who are, as you will see both are related.

2- The social reality in India

Previsouly, we saw how bollywood's casting is based on social elitism, and how castes were represented through these films. In this second part we are going to highlight some of the injustices of this social organisation .

a) The context

There is no universal accepted theory about the origins of social castes in India though we can observe some similarities with other nations such as Iran.

First-of-all it