Rhetorical Construction of Motherhood in Ritwik Ghatak’s Films
By Debjani Halder
In the 1940s, those Indian film directors who portrayed women as ‘ideal mother’ or Deshmatrika actually contributed to upholding the hierarchy of patriarchal control within the family. This, in turn, made negative contributions to the lives of women, thus reducing them to a mere mythical symbol of order.
Café Dissensus 