Namrataba Zala - Structuralism

Structuralism:

Gerard Genette wrote essay named “structuralism and literary criticism”. He borrowed term from Clude levi-strauss, who wrote about Culture and myth, Arteeact & text, Lange/parole etc. The name “structuralism” given to Saussure apporch to language as a system of relationship. He also said about Diachronic and Syn chronic ways of studying language. Structuralism is all about meanings words and perspectives. Words have not their own meanings but meanings given to words through different perspectives.

Here, I want to elaborate it through different examples. There are five movies Dirty picture, Fashion, Hate Story, Damini and Highway and one novel Thousand splendid sons by which I would like to throw more light on my topic. All works are different but there is one common thing “Woman Harassment” in different ways. How meaning goes change when context change that I want to show by this examples.

“Dirty Picture” is directed by Milan Luthria and produced by Akta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and acted by Vidhya Balan, Nasarudin Shah, Tushar Kpoor and Emran Hashmi. This film inspired by the life of south Indian actress “Silk Smitha” where infidelities have also became a part of life.

“fashion” is directed and produced by Madhur Bhandarkar acted by Priynka Chopra, Kangana Ranuat etc. this film ia about small town girl who sets out to fulfill her dream of being a glamorous supermodel but she is about to find out that in the currept world of haute couture, success comes at a price.

“Hate Story” is directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Vikram Bhatt and acted by Paoli Dam, Gulshan Daveiya etc. film is about a journalist is hired by a rich tycoon only to be abused and maligned as a payback for exposing his scams.

“Damini” is directed by Rajkumar Santoshi and acted by Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol, Rishi Kapoor etc. here, girl marries into a wealthy family and witnesses the housemaid being raped by her brother-in-law and his friends. She faces many obstacles as she tries to bring the culprits to justice.

“Highway” is directed and produced by Imtiaz Ali and acted by Randeep Hooda and Alia Bhatt. A young Bride-to-be is abducted by a common goon. Far from being terrified of her abductor she discovers an adventurous and liberating life.

“Thousand Splendid suns” by Khaled Hosseini is about an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage.