Title: Father India and the emergence of the global nation
Abstract: This article contributes to one of Patricia Uberoi’s research interests, how family films address identity conflicts in globalising India. It seeks to highlight the symbolic changes in narrative structure brought about by the shifting focus from mother to father as arbiter of national belonging in recent ‘family socials’. Particular attention is paid to the narrative and performative strategies involved in converting the father and images of the father to a more open social and multicultural design. The article analyses rhetorical modes of self-presentation and assertion, playful and ambiguous forms of characterisation and performance, and genre mixage such as inducting stunt scenes into family socials, as key resources for resolving identity conflicts and engaging spectator interest. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra, 1995) and Kal Ho Na Ho (Nikhil Advani, 2004) are the main works used to analyse these changes, and special attention is devoted to the performance style of the emblematic star, Shah Rukh Khan, in traversing a plethora of identity questions.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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