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This paper examines the Portrayal of women in the films of Rituparno Ghosh and Shyam Benegal. Since more number of research studies were not available particularly on these two directors so papers loosely related to the topic portrayal of women are analysed for the review of literature for the thesis. This paper gives an overview of the works of these two great directors and the alternative way that they have portrayed their women characters, from the other directors of their era.Both quantitative and qualitative methods are used in this paper. For quantitative method content analysis of selected films were done and for qualitative method focus group discussion has been done.A content analysis of five selected films of each of the directors was done. The films were analysed based on certain pre-defined parameters that goes well with the research, and the results are coded on coding sheets and also presented graphically.A focus group discussion was conducted with media and communications students of REVA University, after screening a film of each of these two directors so that they can get an idea about their works and analyse it.