Representations of Nation and Its Margins A Study of Select Movies from Post Colonial Indian Cinema

Abstract

A nation is a process, not a product or fixed origin; instead, its progress through cultural newlineproductions, cultural translations and Art forms. When we say nation, we focus on the newlinepeople who share the same language, culture, tradition, history and social practices. newlineEvery individual has devoid into caste, class, gender differences. Inequality in society newlinethrives on dominating one by oppressing other those are week. The powerless, voiceless, newlineand oppressed people are the margins of the nation, and they resist and protest the newlinedominance through many forms and mediums like protests, paintings and art productions newlineto get their right back. The concept Right to narrate by Homi K Bhabha proposes newlineany art of cultural production expresses the social reality and represent silenced voices newlineof the voiceless through cultural production. The continuous process throughout time newlinecalled as cultural translation. This representation of the particular group or the society newlineat a particular time and particular place can be possible through contemporary technology. newlineMovies are playing significant contribution in entertaining and at the same time newlineeducating. Movies have multiple genres, and it carries research behind it to make the newlinesocial reality on the screen to the right and narrate their voice to the Sovereign nation. newlinePostcolonial terms like Hybridity, Mimicry, Ambivalence has pawed multiple new newlinemixtures of culture and impact on society, culture and art. The basic right to express newlineone s feeling, emotion and idea to different Platforms, which creates multiple mixtures newlineof opportunities for job and fame. The Indian film industry has organised a separate newlineministry to govern the principles and ideas. Right to Narrate is a tool to express ones newlineright through art forms and resist the social oppression and raise voice which can get newlinethe attraction of the sovereign. Nation as all groups and its people community together newlinefragment, and it is a process routine through cultural translation. newline