Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:14:20 -0500 (EST)
From: shash-AT-astro.ocis.temple.edu (Shashwati Talukdar)
Subject: Re: masculinity and postcoloniality


>You wrote:
>>
>>Soumitra,
>>
>>Do you mean to say a Bombay film made in the seventies has nothing to
>do
>>with post-colonial India, simply because it's plot unfolds in the
>>so-called, Oh-so-feudal countryside?!
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 4 Feb 1996, Soumitra Bose wrote:
>>

>"Nothing" is a pretty strong and sweeping retort of my statment.
How about anything?


I say
>that the feudal values are much more prominent in making the characters
>and understanding them in Shaolay than those affected by urban-centered
>colonialism . If someone deconstructs Sholay through colonialist cannons
>and does not recognise the pre-ponderance of the millenium old feudal
>values that would be looking a thing upside down .

I don't think I agree that colonialism and post-colonialism is simply an
urban phenomenon. And I am not certain that the "feudal values" you refer
to are a water tight compartment in the film, unaffected by ideas of
nation, masculinity etc.

I think you have misunderstood what I am trying to do.

Shashwati Talukdar

shash-AT-astro.ocis.temple.edu