INDIAN GENDER POLITICS TODAY: A STUDY OF THE MOVIE THAPPAD

Abstract

Feminism is past it’s third wave and may be on the way to the forth. But is it necessary to prolong the journey on the part of the feminists? Is not patriarchy already a past? The movie Thappad comes with an answer and that is not a positive one. It reveals the status that patriarchy is still being able to maintain. The movie shows how the oppression it causes in middle and upper class Indian society is much more subtle than the lower class, but it still is there. It’s not the brutal rape, domestic violence, or triple divorce. It’s form is so much finer that even an educated and enlightened woman takes her time to recognize it. Though in subtler forms than earlier but patriarchy keeps haunting even the upper class women let alone the lower class women. The movie Thappad is an attempt to examine the current status of patriarchy in upper, middle and lower class Indian families. And the paper is also an attempt to examine and analyze the current standing of patriarchy and feminist resistance to it as the movie tried to portray.