Shyam Benegal's Ankur and the Nehruvian woman

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  • シャーム・ベネガルの『芽ばえ』とネルー主義の女性
  • シャームベネガルの芽ばえとネルー主義の女性

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Shyam Benegal's debut film Ankur (The Seedling, 1973) reveals his embrace of the ideology of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru's grand project to create a new independent India that would be secular and modern. The achievements of the Nehru era (1947-64), however, are uneven. The initial promise yet subsequent failure of the `Nehruvian project' forms the background to Ankur. Benegal shares Nehru's fundamental belief that the best hope for transforming Indian society lay with women. Thus the protagonist of Ankur is the untouchable Lakshmi, and the story is the drama of her self-empowerment in the face of patriarchal oppression. She is the epitome of what the `Nehruvian woman', Benegal's torchbearer for the new India that Nehru envisaged in 1947.

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  • 言語文化

    言語文化 13 (2), 89-115, 2010-12-31

    Doshisha Society for the Study of Language and Culture

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