Vol. 4, Issue 12, Part F (2018)

Abstract
The portrayal of rural culture in Hindi cinema gives ample evidence to know Indian culture and Indian rural society. Indian cinema is a mass medium through which the culture of particular time and space is represented. This work confirms that there is decline in study of rural sociology after 1980s following the same route, rural life as a dominant theme of Hindi cinema has been declined after 1980s for various reasons.