Challenging Social Norms and Redefining Gender Dynamics in the film Thappad (Slap)

  • Tanima Kumari Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.92.1.83-108
Keywords: Neoliberal Subjectivity, Gender, Domestic Violence, COVID-19, Women Question

Abstract

Over the past few years, there has been a drastic change in the reception and sapience of gender and sexual politics across India. The present study on Anubhav Sinha’s movie Thappad (2020) will analyse the experiences of a woman, Amrita, who holds her agency and succeeds in achieving her neoliberal subjectivity. The paper also professes to critique the “women’s question” in the neoliberal regime, where the notion of sexuality and gender politics in a socio-cultural space. The paper also studies the nuances of traditional femininity women adopt, especially after marriage. Domestic violence has been a part of women’s lives, and COVID-19 in frame brought the plight of conditions to a more deplorable state. Lastly, the paper would justify the title of the movie Thappad to the misogynist attitude driving the film’s story and women’s condition in society.

 

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Author Biography

Tanima Kumari, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga

Tanima Kumari, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, C.M. College, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, India. She received her masters in English from Banaras Hindu University (India) and obtained her doctorate from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India. Her areas of interest include Gender Studies, African-American Women’s Poetry, Film Studies, Indian Writing in English, and Postcolonial Studies. She is one of the Executive Editors of the Academia Journal of C.M College. She has presented many research papers at national and international conferences. She was awarded the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Ministry of Human Resources Development Travel Grant (Govt. of India) to attend the International Conference in Oxford, U.K., in 2020. She presented at the conference on the World Theatre Process, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2018. She has published extensively in many international and national journals. Her recently released book, A Critical Reading of Female Subjectivity in African-American Women's Poetry, was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the UK.

Published
2024-06-05
How to Cite
Kumari, T. (2024). Challenging Social Norms and Redefining Gender Dynamics in the film Thappad (Slap). Archiv orientální, 92(1), 83-108. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.92.1.83-108
Issue
Vol. 92 No. 1 (2024)
Section
Research Article

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