TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - "The Woman Waylaid at the Well" or Paṇaghaṭa-līlā: An Indian Folk Theme Appropriated in Myth and Movies
JO  - Asian ethnology
A1  - Pauwels, Heidi
SP  - 1
EP  - 33
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 "the woman waylaid at the well." This theme is an important one because it raises the issue of so-called "eve-teasing," 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 /> 
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SN  - 1882-6865
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -