We have seen how ads send out subtle messages. Psychologist Neha Patel, while agreeing with the general perception that television and films do influence people, said that a vivid display of the consequences of rape can help in reducing such crime. This is the only way a chicken-or-egg conundrum can be hacked into a beneficial reality.
But they can also do us a favor and put the focus on the criminal and tell us crime does not pay. It maybe that once society changes it’s attitude, the movies will reflect that. The perpetrator is a murderer and anybody who laps it up as a good deed, is enjoying honor porn. I could not have agreed more, it was a well crafted movie, the year was 2007 and rapes, we assumed, only happened on the silver screen or to other people’s daughters. Rajnikant, a super hero of the Tamil film industry, is purported to have said to the director of this film, Ameer This is not a movie, this is poetry. Two lives taken, criminals walk free, but honor, apparently restored to an original virtuous state. Honor porn is bloody, but a tribal justice is served. Tribal justice strikes a raw nerve and a deeper chord than a fast-track court in Delhi can.
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The movie plays out society’s dharma of honor. Honorable death over a dishonorable life as a rape survivor. A rape-victim choosing to die than to live. An enraged public, unaware of her gang-rape, assumes what it sees, stones her lover to death thinking him to be a violent madman.Ī troubling climax. Her lover obliges, and murders her in public view. Presumably to die with honor in her lover’s hands instead of continuing to live as an ignominious rape-survivor. In a climactic scene, a gang-rape victim lies dying in the arms of her lover, pleading for death. A bucolic sweep of cinematography transports the audience to an arid hamlet in Madurai. Society’s deviant mores are reflected well on the widescreen.Ī Tamil movie Paruthiveeran won a few prestigious National Film Awards a few years ago. Rape is the worst form of intimacy depiction, there being other minor forms detailed later.
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I believe the number of silver screen rapes have seen a steady decline. Over time, the censor boards became liberal and have allowed for a little more public display of intimacy. In other words, the only way a director could slip in intimacy was through violation of human dignity. The movies of old, “titillated” the audience with rape scenes. Suppression of such public display of intimacy in the past, has given rise to an unusual exposition of bestiality – rape. Such intimate scenes get the censor board’s axe. The Indian censor board does not allow for movie scenes depicting frontal nudity or lip locks. Vatsyayana experts can shed some light on this stupid behavior. The depiction of sexual intimacy when it comes out of that shroud and into the open bright glare of daylight, apparently assaults us with violence in the form of degrading behavior. The depiction of sexual intimacy on the silver screen has remained a clandestine activity shrouded in the cover of a private darkness for the movie going audience. Hence my question on an important ancient text. Was Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra a depiction of intimacy through gender inequality? I do not think so, but a misogynistic and patriarchal society may beg to differ! The west knows India by what we export: Yoga, Ravi Shankar and Kama Sutra. Strong and liberated characterization through emancipation of womenkind. We are not talking pornography here, but depiction of intimacy through gender equality. India being the land of Kama Sutra, is yet to come to terms in bringing the bedroom to the living room of an eager audience. Did the sociopath mimic the movie or vice versa? I think this is a chicken or egg conundrum.
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