Abstract
Disability, Agency, and Subjectivity in Aparna Sen’s Three Disability Films: Sati, House of Memories, and 15 Park Avenue
Highlights
Throughout her career as a filmmaker, Aparna Sen has been very vocal about women’s alienation in the subcontinental cultural imagination
This paper focuses on three films directed by Indian-Bengali filmmaker Aparna Sen: Sati (1989) (Bengali), Paromitar Ekdin (2000) (Bengali), and 15 Park Avenue (English) (2006)
The tradition of Indian parallel cinema started with Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak and has been advanced by Shyam Benegal, Girish Kanrad, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Ketan Mehta, Mani Kaul, and Kumar Shahani
Summary
Throughout her career as a filmmaker, Aparna Sen has been very vocal about women’s alienation in the subcontinental cultural imagination. Paromita is appreciated for her beauty till she gives birth to her disabled child but Khuku remains a perennial embarrassment to her family for her obese and awkward body and deranged mind.
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