"The woman waylaid at the well" or Panaghata-lila: an Indian folk theme appropriated in myth and movies
2010; Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture; Volume: 69; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1882-6865
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoThis article seeks to contribute to studying manifold and interesting ways Indian popular movies have appropriated folk and mythological materials by focusing on paṇaghaṭa-līlā or theme of the woman waylaid at well. This theme is an important one because it raises issue of so-called eve-teasing, a form of sexual harassment of women omnipresent in public spaces in South Asia. The article in turn discusses folk and mythological treatments of paṇaghaṭa-līlā, before analyzing its adaptations in song in three popular Hindi movies: recent remaking of Devdas by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2002), P. L. Santoshi's Barsaat ki Raat (1960), which deploys theme in a Qawwālī context, and finally classic Mother India by Mehboob Khan (1957). Each movie illustrates a different type of contextualization of theme. Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27821480
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