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MERI UNKAHI KAHANI - The Untold Story
Medium : Digital Painting,
Photoshop, Drawing Tablet
Dimension : 84.1 cm x 118.9 cm ( Poster 1 and 2)
219.2 cm x 118.9 cm (Poster 3)
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This Series explores the idea of the “norms” that are propagated in mass media, in the Indian society.
Power and control are something human beings thrive for which has been obtained over the years by the means of sexuality. When we talk about female sexuality, it has been the factor of defining their roles in the society. Their roles revolving around a sphere circumscribed by their domesticity.
Today in the 21st century one would believe these ideas to be regressive yet these ideas are being propagated on screen. When we look at the screening culture in India, which is known for its use of melodrama social realism, you can see the portrayal of women in regressive traditional ways. Sexuality defines the roles of individuals in a society and media has played an important role in creating the controls over sexuality.
The roles of males in mass media have been shown to be dominant, active and authoritative compared to that of females who are shown to be submissively, passive and entirely put up with subduing their wills to the wills of media males.
This series of work focuses on the grand Indian epic: Mahabharata. The text itself evolved and continues to evolve and as such is referred to as Chakra – a wheel – and each generation serves as a cog to set this wheel in motion, thus enabling the evolution of the self and the text to occur in a synergistic fashion. Yet today after being produced and telecasted several times the story of the female protagonists revolve around the male characters while the male characters story line is created as a separate television series.
The main objective of this studio series is to create a story line of the Female protagonist, Draupadi, in between the existing story which isn’t as “culturally-displaced” and to be able to lessen the gap in the story between the “ancient past” and the “modern present”. The secondary objective of the series is to hint on the unconscious mainstream mass media culture today.