Aunties are voices from the sky: Re-imagining resistance in bollywood

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Prateek	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-28T10:10:45Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-04-28T10:10:45Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022-06	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746689.2022.2089461	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10564	-
dc.description.abstract	This article explores the poetics and politics of the Indian aunty. I argue that the aunty in the movie The Lunchbox (2013) negotiates with the ancient Sanskrit tradition of akashvani (celestial voice). In the first part of the article, I track the aunty’s trajectory from a loan word in Hindi to a political statement. I then study the aunty through an analysis of Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox to demonstrate how the aunty figure rewrites Bollywood’s eroticizing gaze and challenges unpaid female domestic labor. Overall, I examine how the Indian aunty offers another idiom of resistance against the discourse of patriarchy.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis	en_US
dc.subject	Social Sciences	en_US
dc.subject	Bollywood	en_US
dc.subject	Resistance	en_US
dc.subject	Labor	en_US
dc.subject	Akashvani	en_US
dc.subject	Aunty	en_US
dc.title	Aunties are voices from the sky: Re-imagining resistance in bollywood	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
Appears in Collections:	Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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