Movie & Feminism - Dangal (2016)



Feminist literary criticism uses feminist’s principle to draw out their perspectives on any literary work. They explore the inequalities, social injustices, and misinformed messages that were given to a woman within patriarchal societies and cultures. Their interpretation is analyzed through all sort of human communication and language. However, cultures in a society play a major part in setting up the role of a woman.
                Dangal is a Hindi film that is considered to be a female empowerment film. It focuses on the theme of a women empowerment and an equality as well as the relationship between the father and the daughters. This story is about a father who uses his daughters to fulfill his unachieved ambition to become a wrestler. Despite all the prejudices and hardships encountered by them specifically from the judgmental society. Young women, Geeta and Babita who bravely break the gender stereotypes in their society are the center attraction for this work. Both of them succeed in getting the recognition in the prescribed gender roles and the association of ‘masculinity’ in the sport that they have ventured on which is wrestling.


                India society is rich in cultures where the system of patriarchy in the social organization is the dominant practices law among them especially in the rural part of India. According to Jackson (2010), she stated that women in India are in the state of uncompromisable in either accepting the patriarchal structures or being considered as a betrayal to the India culture. India is famous with their practices in marginalizing the women character in their social organization, for instance, the significance of sati (widow burning) and child marriage where a woman is considered useless and unworthy without a man in their life. In addition, the women’s right in getting an education is denied as their role is pertaining to do household work and managing their family.
                
Mahavir Singh, the father who is in the hope of getting a son in his marriage, unfortunately, he only received daughters for every pregnancy. He desperately wanted a son to continue his legacy in wrestling. This scene where it clearly shows the birth of a son is merrily celebrated, unlike the daughters. Mahavir Singh is a character that is caught up by the cultures where the role of a man is highly demanding in continuing the legacy of the family. However, this character countered back with his acceptance and his attention in her daughters’ needs. This movie promotes the idea of letting the women in the movie be independent and bold in getting what they want with the help from people around them to not be marginalized in the patriarchal society.




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