Deepa Mehta is a famous film Director which is born in India and she has done philosophy from University of New Delhi which later she migrated to Canada .She has started her professional career from Canada only. She started making many films on different social issues in Canada .She some awards too because of amazing works on social justice.
The Fire and Water Distinct Image Fire: Male Domination and Patriarchy Here I want to focused on the two by Deepa Mehta which Both the movies Fire and Movie essentially focused on patriarchal and male domination society which shaped by the traditional Hindu beliefs. These two movies are the critique of social injustice and violence against women. According to these two movies there should be great …show more content…
“There are that the controversy over Fire is not simply about freedom of expression; it is also indicative of the entrenched cultural disputes going on in contemporary India. This conflict is part of a broader ideological struggle about who counts as part of Indian culture and who is excluded, an outsider.” (Burton, 2013)
Deepa Mehta portrays the different aspects of Indian society in her many movies. She criticizes the situation of women in Indian society and bringing a broad picture of women’s life under domination of male. To certain extend she has criticize the Hindu culture in both the movies and generate overall picture of domination which starting from family and goes beyond the family. She generated a broad message of injustice against women which women have been treating in a very unfair way in Indian society. In such circumstance the women right is fully ignored by male dominated society, culture, religion or certain other elements. The way in which women are treated in Indian community is totally unfair and she talks about hegemony of male in Indian society. The interesting point is that the women are fully following the culture and beliefs which treating them unfairly so this injustice or …show more content…
There should be some changes in those laws which caused unfair treatment against women. Sometimes conservative beliefs from religion cause such kind of social issues which the Manusmriti is the big evidence of this claim. “The Manusmriti, an ancient Hindu text, says that in life a woman is half her husband and if he dies, she is half dead. A widow has three choices: she can throw herself on his funeral pyre and die with him; she can marry his brother, if one is available; or she can live out the rest of her days in isolation and seclusion. If she chooses the latter, the ascetic path, she enters an ashram, shaves her head, wears white as a sign of mourning, and tries to atone for her husband's death.” (Frederic and Brussat,
The Fire and Water Distinct Image Fire: Male Domination and Patriarchy Here I want to focused on the two by Deepa Mehta which Both the movies Fire and Movie essentially focused on patriarchal and male domination society which shaped by the traditional Hindu beliefs. These two movies are the critique of social injustice and violence against women. According to these two movies there should be great …show more content…
“There are that the controversy over Fire is not simply about freedom of expression; it is also indicative of the entrenched cultural disputes going on in contemporary India. This conflict is part of a broader ideological struggle about who counts as part of Indian culture and who is excluded, an outsider.” (Burton, 2013)
Deepa Mehta portrays the different aspects of Indian society in her many movies. She criticizes the situation of women in Indian society and bringing a broad picture of women’s life under domination of male. To certain extend she has criticize the Hindu culture in both the movies and generate overall picture of domination which starting from family and goes beyond the family. She generated a broad message of injustice against women which women have been treating in a very unfair way in Indian society. In such circumstance the women right is fully ignored by male dominated society, culture, religion or certain other elements. The way in which women are treated in Indian community is totally unfair and she talks about hegemony of male in Indian society. The interesting point is that the women are fully following the culture and beliefs which treating them unfairly so this injustice or …show more content…
There should be some changes in those laws which caused unfair treatment against women. Sometimes conservative beliefs from religion cause such kind of social issues which the Manusmriti is the big evidence of this claim. “The Manusmriti, an ancient Hindu text, says that in life a woman is half her husband and if he dies, she is half dead. A widow has three choices: she can throw herself on his funeral pyre and die with him; she can marry his brother, if one is available; or she can live out the rest of her days in isolation and seclusion. If she chooses the latter, the ascetic path, she enters an ashram, shaves her head, wears white as a sign of mourning, and tries to atone for her husband's death.” (Frederic and Brussat,