Abstract
Rajkahini represents Srijit Mukherji’s tryst with the concepts of nationalism,national identity and each character’s personal identity with respect to India’s partition.Partition has been critiqued vis-à-vis the ‘two nations’ theory, and Imperialism. Withpartition, the communion shared between people gets threatened, the border becomes thesignifier of unspeakable horrors. The (feminine?) nation is prostituted, raped, maimed andtraumatized by colonial power. Mukherji plays deftly with the idea of satidaha in hisportrayal of the prostitutes under Begum Jaan, who get entangled in political violence andshow traits of militant nationalism. The sati here acquires and retains possession of her ownbody and self and voluntarily annihilates the body.
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