"You Go Girl!" Nationalism and Women's Empowerment in the Bollywood Film Kya Kehna!

This essay puts forth an analysis of the recent portrayal of an unwed mother in the Bollywood film, Kya Kehna! (Kundan Shah, 2000, henceforth KK). The title, which is readily translated to the rhetorical, "What can you say?" has additional significance here as a laudatory exclamation direc...

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Main Author: Childers, Hope Marie
Other Authors: Adelaide M. Russo
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2002
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0411102-131419/