PLIGHTS AND AGONIES OF WIDOWED WOMEN IN INDIAN SOCIETY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MARATHI MOVIE KAKSPARSH

The genres of film studies represent, from its origin, socio-cultural, economic, political, religious, spatial changes in contemporary Indian traditional society. Specifically, the Indian film industry explores the varied dimensions of human geography while using different types of critical practices which affect the lives of ordinary human being. Also, most of the Hollywood and Bollywood movies represent the pathetic situation of the female subjects in Indian traditional and conservative society. There are many films those are represents the socio-cultural milieu through lives of characters from different background. Consequently, in dominant system of Indian patriarchal society suppress the voices of Indian women on the issue of gender, sex, class and marginality. Earlier, from the invasion of Raja Rama Mohan Roy’s concept of ‘sati’ to the forceful oppression of widows in contemporary Indian society, it is found that female subjects are become the cause of exploitation and subordination in parochial hegemony. The said imbalanced position of women is reflected in multilingual films that connect with the issues and varied practices reflected in literature and literary studies. The present paper is genuine attempt to find out the issues that affect the lives of widows. The Marathi movie Kaksparsh provides the varied causes of female subjugation in modern but having typical conventional as well as dominant male centric societ