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- Title
Deconstructing Gender Binaries: Representations in Select Bollywood Movies.
- Authors
Sharma, Devika; Malhotra, Isha
- Abstract
The present paper examines a paradigm shift in the stereotypical gender roles in two Bollywood movies, focusing upon their deconstruction of gender binaries. NH10 traces the evolution of a professional independent woman who after the death of her husband takes the "agency" into her hands and becomes an agent of change. She not only avenges the murder of her husband but also tries to bring justice in the highly regressive patriarchal rural setup. Dangal deals with the real life story of Phogat family, a family of wrestlers belonging to Haryana, India. It presents the successful attempt made by Mahvir Singh Phogat, a masculine man. Breaking the gender stereotypes, he trains his daughters in a masculine game, wrestling. The paper will analyse how sex, gender and sexuality may be popularly perceived as joined, but they are "politically textualized and constructed." It will make an attempt to use Judith Butler's theory of "Undoing Gender" to break the artificial binaries and to further establish that sex, gender and sexuality is a construction and is not stable.
- Subjects
INDIA; MOTION pictures; GENDER role; NH10 (Film); DANGAL (Film); PARADIGMS (Social sciences)
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 4, p49
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article