Abstract
Madam Fuli(1999) is an award winning creation of Shahidul Islam, the director of the film. It is one of the most remarkable films in Dhallywood, the Film Industry of Bangladesh, which won the National Film Award afterwards for its storyline and stunning acting by the protagonist’s (Fuli) cast Shimla. This film gave a jolt to the contemporary social systems of Bangladesh regarding our attitude towards the skin color of women and also towards our concept of beauty. Through the portrayal of various stage of Fuli’s life, the director, Shahidul Islam Khokon, who is the producer and the screen-play writer of this film, takes attempts to show what are the things and incidents a girl or a woman go through in the society in Bangladesh. By putting a tagline as ‘Fight for Right’ the director wants to visualize the struggle of a woman in the society of Bangladesh. But somehow, this film actually encourages the same follies and vices of the social practices that it intends to resist. This article shows how Madam Fuli actually waters into the roots of the same old racist concept of beauty.
Highlights
Madam Fuli (Khokon 1999), a Bangladeshi film based on the very typical social context directed by Shahidul Islam Khokon
A detailed study on Madam Fuli would encourages that capitalist racist society in doing such things by the portrayals of the people who have dark skin tone and less amount of money in a capitalist society
This study gives a postcolonial explanation of Madam Fuli, where it has been portrayed how the racism still exists in the minds of the people and how these people are being affected by their racist point of view in every and
Summary
Madam Fuli (Khokon 1999), a Bangladeshi film based on the very typical social context directed by Shahidul Islam Khokon. This study gives a postcolonial explanation of Madam Fuli, where it has been portrayed how the racism still exists in the minds of the people and how these people are being affected by their racist point of view in every and It shows how people in Bangladesh still believe the same old idea and concept beauty, that is beauty means white, imposed by the British people during their colonization almost about 250 years ago! This very article shows how Madam Fuli depicts the social condition of containing the idea of making the women a point of male gaze, and supporting the racism and capitalism through the characters of the films Colors and Their Cultural Meanings Colors are found to create definitions of various aspects in human life and provide knowledge anywhere on the world (Islam et al, 2020). It is worth noting that, because the Western concept of colors and their meanings is important for the present research, as Bangladesh’s society embraces a lot of Western culture standards and ideologies due to the colonialism by the Europeans mentioned of the article
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