2014/10/13 by Reetamoni Das, Debarshi Prasad Nath · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #South Asian Cinema and Culture #Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism #Cinema and Media Studies #Subaltern #Prosperity #Narrative #Gender studies #Sociology #Poverty #Aesthetics #History #Political science #Literature #Art #Law
paper · pdf · doi:10.5195/cinej.2014.99
openalex publication_date 2014/10/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/19
Kalpana Lajmi adapts Mahesweta Devi’s short story to highlight the plight of a woman in the system of exploitation and hunger. Amidst the never ending class struggle, that Devi has so effectively depicted, the struggle of gender becomes the issue of highlight for Lajmi. In poverty and prosperity she remains the same. In the search for the self, Lajmi tries to discover a language through which the subaltern may speak and in Rudaali it is the language of tears. Tears that have been eternally associated with the female become the unique language of the feminine to speak for themselves in Lajmi and Devi. In the cultural terrain where language of man is the norm Rudaali is an exception.