| 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 |
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