Author(s): Dr. Sooraj Kumar¹, Dr. Seema Rajan S.²

Abstract: This article is an earnest endeavour to examine the cinema Laapata Ladies through a critical lens, analyzing its plot, themes, narrative structure and obviously its political, social and cultural significance. The film directed by Kiran Rao undertakes a laborious venture offering a scathing yet distressing exploration of gender, patriarchy, and feminine identity in rural India. It narrates a derisive story of two women who go missing in a train journey. Through an invigorating narrative the film explores the superficially absent but inherently visible intersection of individual freedom and societal expectations. It realistically examines the struggles of its central characters confronting the pressures of tradition, family, and personal desires. The ordinary women defy the conventional roles the society expects them to play and instead they walk less treaded paths as they brave the personal and social constraints placed upon them by both the community and the family. Eventually, with a gripping and a persuasive narrative, Laapata Ladies realistically portrays feminine life in rural India by boldly challenging the orthodox pillars and conventional symbols. It certainly advocates the need for a radical change which has become the need of the hour displaying without embellishments the immense potential of womanhood towards empowerment.

Keywords: Gender, patriarchy, feminism, subversion, identity, self- reliance, women individuality and empowerment.

DOI:10.61165/sk.publisher.v11i12.27

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Breaching Boundaries and Redefining Feminine Resistance: Exploration of Women’s Struggles and Successes in Laapata Ladies

Pages:136-140