@article{ref1,
title=""The Woman Waylaid at the Well" or Paṇaghaṭa-līlā: An Indian Folk Theme Appropriated in Myth and Movies",
journal="Asian ethnology",
year="2010",
author="Pauwels, Heidi",
volume="69",
number="1",
pages="1-33",
abstract="This article seeks to contribute to studying the manifold and interesting ways Indian popular movies have appropriated folk and mythological materials by focusing on the paṇaghaṭa-līlā or the theme of &quot;the woman waylaid at the well.&quot; This theme is an important one because it raises the issue of so-called &quot;eve-teasing,&quot; a form of sexual harassment of women omnipresent in public spaces in South Asia. The article in turn discusses the folk and the mythological treatments of the paṇaghaṭa-līlā, before analyzing its adaptations in song in three popular Hindi movies: the recent remaking of Devdas by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (2002), P. L. Santoshi's Barsaat ki Raat (1960), which deploys the theme in a Qawwālī context, and finally the classic Mother India by Mehboob Khan (1957). Each movie illustrates a different type of contextualization of the theme.Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27821480<p />",
language="",
issn="1882-6865",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}