{"id":274,"date":"2006-06-28T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T05:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=274"},"modified":"2018-08-22T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T14:30:18","slug":"14694-%c2%a0%c2%a0shoma-a-chatterji-subject-cinema-object-woman-a-study-of-the-portrayal-of-women-in-indian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"14694.&nbsp;(Shoma A. Chatterji) Subject: Cinema, Object: Woman, a Study of the Portrayal of Women in Indian Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9568\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/06-06-28-READ-14694.-Shoma-A.-Chatterji-Subject-Cinema-Object-Woman-a-Study-of-the-Portrayal-of-Women-in-Indian-Cinema.jpg\" alt=\"06-06-28 READ 14694. (Shoma A. Chatterji) Subject Cinema, Object Woman, a Study of the Portrayal of Women in Indian Cinema\" width=\"235\" height=\"342\"><\/a>Who would have guessed that, as ear\u00adly as the 1930\u2019s, there was an action hero\u00adine in Indi\u00adan cin\u00adema, who did all her own stunts, and defied all the con\u00adven\u00adtions of pas\u00adsive and sim\u00adper\u00ading fem\u00adi\u00adnin\u00adity, and played sec\u00adond fid\u00addle to no male? That\u2019s the most remark\u00adable infor\u00adma\u00adtion in this study. Start\u00ading with <em>Hunter\u00adwali <\/em>(1935), Fear\u00adless Nadia starred in a series of extreme\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar adven\u00adture films. \u201c<em>The female pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist entered the scene on horse\u00adback, with the clar\u00adion call of \u2018Hey-y-y\u2011y\u2019, hand raised defi\u00adantly inn the air, rid\u00ading in with the pride and arro\u00adgance that was more befit\u00adting of Dou\u00adglas Fair\u00adbanks.<\/em>\u201d&nbsp;This remark\u00adable actress had start\u00aded out as a steno-typ\u00adist, but, inclined to be plump, took danc\u00ading lessons. Then she joined a trav\u00adel\u00ading cir\u00adcus, and a bal\u00adlet troop. Her amaz\u00ading film stunts (all real) includ\u00aded hoist\u00ading strong men on her back, fight\u00ading four lions, swing\u00ading from chan\u00adde\u00adliers, leap\u00ading from cliffs into water\u00adfalls. She rode, swam, tum\u00adbled, wres\u00adtled and fenced her way through numer\u00adous films, often with a mask and a whip, until she was near\u00adly&nbsp;fifty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have guessed that, as ear\u00adly as the 1930\u2019s, there was an action hero\u00adine in Indi\u00adan cin\u00adema, who did all her own stunts, and defied all the con\u00adven\u00adtions of pas\u00adsive and sim\u00adper\u00ading fem\u00adi\u00adnin\u00adity, and played sec\u00adond fid\u00addle to&nbsp;no&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=274\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18,948,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006","category-d-viewing","category-du-viewing-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9570,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}