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22 Unreality, Fantasy, and the Anti-fascist Politics of the Children’s Films of Satyajit Ray
Get accessKoel Banerjee is a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include South Asian cinema, transnational melodrama, neoliberalism, and consumer culture. She has published in the journals Cultural Critique, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Film Quarterly, and Screen (forthcoming), and her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism, and Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies.
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Published:20 April 2022
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on Satyajit Ray’s Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds, 1980) and explores how the genre of the children’s film responds to its political milieu. Ray had been criticized his contemporaries for not being political enough, and his carefully crafted naturalism was seen as an impediment to politically committed cinema. However, in Hirak Rajar Deshe, Ray deviates from his seamless naturalist style and provides an acerbic critique of the Emergency, which was a period of curtailment of civil liberties imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in India between 1975–1977. The chapter asks how the children’s film genre the enables Ray to mount such a critique of state-sponsored violence that is otherwise thought to be missing from his oeuvre. The chapter argues that the allegorical structure of the film enables it to transcend its own temporal referents to offer a critique of the fascism that we are encountering in our present moment.
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