A Case Study on Understanding the Representation of Gendered Subaltern Perspective in Rudaali Movie

Abstract

The research study examines to understand the background of the Rudaali community and analyse the subalternate through the movie Rudaali (1993). The research helped to find out the intensity of oppressed against poverty, humiliation and wrecked by an exploitative patriarchal caste-based social system in the film. This movie was adopted from Mahaswetha Devi ‘Rudali short story’. The film is set against the physical and cultural backdrop of Rajasthan. The film revolves around the life of Sanichari, a woman in rural Rajasthan. This study used Post Colonial Theory (Subaltern Studies) to explore caste, class and gender perspectives in the film. The qualitative approach employed to analyze the data using narrative analysis and thematic analysis.