宝莱坞电影《Laxmii》中海吉拉的表现:现实的缺失

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Media Watch Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI:10.1177/09760911221112613

N. Kumari, Rajni Singh

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由于在主流社会和文化环境中长期被边缘化，海吉拉社区不断争取得到认可。宝莱坞电影《Laxmii 2020》通过延续偏见和刻板印象，并将其作为喜剧救济和嘲笑的来源，增加了对海吉拉斯的偏见和误解。本文研究了宝莱坞电影《Laxmii》(劳伦斯，2020)中海吉拉斯的写照。首先是性别认同，这是通过性别的行为理论而不是本质主义的表述来检验的。其次，运用鲍德里亚(Baudrillard, 1983)的后现代超现实主义表述来分析常见概念的夸张和残缺不全。本文从宝莱坞电影中对海吉拉形象的正面和负面刻画出发，试图通过比较研究来直观地理解海吉拉形象的演变。然而，在《Laxmii》中，现实与虚构之间存在着巨大的差距，因为电影未能展示海吉拉的真实经历，却为虚幻幽灵的叙事铺平了道路。

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Representation of Hijras in Bollywood Movie Laxmii: The Loss of Reality

Due to their long-standing marginalisation in mainstream social and cultural settings, the hijra community continuously strives for recognition. Bollywood film Laxmii 2020 has added to the prejudice and misconceptions surrounding hijras by perpetuating biases and stereotypes and using them as a source of comic relief and mockery. This article examines the portrayal of hijras in the Bollywood movie Laxmii (Lawrence, 2020) based on two dimensions. The first is gender identity, as examined through the performative theory of gender rather than essentialist formulations. Second, Baudrillard’s (1983) formulation of postmodern hyperrealism is applied to analyse the exaggerations and mutilations of common concepts. Considering the positive and negative portrayals of hijra characters in Bollywood movies, we attempt a comparative study to comprehend the evolution of hijra representation diaphanously. However, in Laxmii, a substantial gap is recognised between reality and fiction, as the movie fails to demonstrate the real-life experiences of the hijras while paving the way to the narrative of the unreal ghost.

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