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Indian cinema in its history of representations has predominantly depicted narratives of the man. Similar to the observations of the media representations by Collins of the two special issues in Sex Roles, the women characters in Indian cinema too are in subordinate supportive roles, such as the abiding wife/ lover, the all sacrificing mother or the opposite -the vamp (Collins 290). In the many decades of Indian cinema, women-centred narratives have been very few. The new advent of OTT platforms has led to changes in these representations. In this study the OTT series, Bombay Begums is studied to closely observe the changes in patterns of narrative. The study intends to highlight the narratives that concentrate on the women's voice focusing on the socialisation of gender based on the Foucauldian Theory of Panopticon through the Male Gaze and its politics, concentrating on the retelling of the story from the women's perspective.