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- Title
Cinematic Narrative of Disability in Post-Independent India: A Case Study of Mother India.
- Authors
GOSWAMI, NILAKSHI
- Abstract
Jenny Morris argues that cultural representations of disability mostly centre on the feelings of the non-disabled and their reactions to disability, instead of focusing on the disability itself. Addressing Mehboob Khan's Mother India (1957), a movie based on an agrarian society of Western Gujarat in the newly independent India, the paper examines the implied meaning of being disabled in a socialist society of India through its cinematic narrations. Post-independent Hindi popular cinema embraced farming life as its fundamental narrative trope to disseminate the idea of a self-sufficient independent nation, especially in the wake of Jawaharlal Nehru's Five-Year Plan for industrial development. Interspersed between nationalism and the myth of socialism, the subject of disability has, however, been overlooked over the years. This paper, thereby, examines the rural/peasant/agrarian nexus within the conflicting cinematic representations of the absent-disabled citizen as a lacuna in this newly emerging independent India.
- Subjects
INDIA; GUJARAT (India); NARRATION in motion pictures; PEASANTS; HINDI films; AGRARIAN societies; NEHRU, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964; SOCIALIST societies; WESTERN society; FARM life
- Publication
Mise-en-Scène, 2023, Vol 8, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2560-7065
- Publication type
Article