How women has to suffer one or another way, and how difficult to live ALONE (without her husband). Every women have some potential but only need to show it. Our presentation is dedicated for all those who have ability to do something..

1. Comparison between Chitra Divakaruni
Banerji’s Short Story: “Clothes” and the
Movie: Babul (song: Bawari Piya Ki…)
Prepared by: Drashti Dave and Drashti Mehta
V/S

2. • As we studied two stories from collection of
short stories “Arranged marriage” by Chitra
Divakaruni Banaraji in M.Phil English course
Sem 1…and we had watched this movie
Babul,directed by Ravi Chopara we were
interested to compare both works…

3. Introduction
• Name as a symbol:
• Words used for a
husband…
• Chalabaliya
• Manbasiyaa
• Piya
• Rani Mukherjee-
Salaman Khan
• In a story
• Mita and Somesh Sen
In a movie
Manng meri sindoor tumhare naam ka…
Gala mera mangalsutra tumhare naam ka…
Kokh meri baccha tumhare naam ka…
Aakhir kya he…Tumhare paas MERE NAAM KA…
- (dialogue of Hamari Adhuri Kahani)

4. Symbolism
• Significance of Clothes, especially for
woman with the reference to marriage
• Sign- Signified-signifier
• 1)Sari(in story)
• 2)Colour symbolism- Red v/s White(both
in story and movie)
• 3)Rain( in movie- song) externalization of
internal grief
• 4) Shringar(in both movie and song)-
Sindur, Bindi, Chudi and Mangalsutra…
• Dove with their cut off wings(to quote
from the real text)

5. Bridge
• Bridge between past and present
• Life before marriage and after marriage
• Hybrid- identity
• Colonized mind

6. Role of society: Past v/s Present
• Role of society- new
generation, situation is
better…
• Old generation- new
generation
• Difficult for woman to live
alone
• Like a Living dead body
• Mentality of “INDIAN
WOMEN”
• Women self empowered
at the end…independent
• Strong battle…between
mind and heart
According to Simone de
Beavoir:
“Women are not born
but made…”

7. Role of Family
• Family members
• Treatment as a daughter

8. Role of Husband
• Caring
• Favoring
• Understanding
• Supporting
• Encouraging
• Friend like
• At the end her husband is with
her( in her memory)
• Support to each other:
Completeness,Strength

9. Role of a women
• Identity?
• Multilayered
• Daughter
• Sister
• Friend
• Wife
• Mother
• So many changes…
• Although she is ALONE but she is not alone( in her memory her husband is
still alive)

10. Song Lyrics…

11. “An Angel in a
house”
Because all over India, at this very moment, widows in
white saris are bowing their veiled heads, serving tea
to in-laws. Doves with cut-off wings.

12. Plot of the song : Tone of song is Sad..
• About Song
• Tone: Sad
• Madness:
Sanity..
Insanity
• Repetition of
lines

13. Difference between movie
and story
• Punarvivah in movie
• In story she challengingly decide to
live alone

14. Examples of movies: Idea of Strength
• Baabul
• Hum Apke Dil Mein Rehte Hain..
• Queen
• Lajja
• Humari Adhuri Kahaani
• Kahhani

15. Theme of Woman Empowerment
• The idea of Strength- being strong
• Deconstruction- reconstruction
• When the strength is needed?
• To Live and To Leave
• In a way woman is strong…leaving known for unknown…(for more reference
see next slide)

16. Reference from text:
For the first time it occurred to me that if things worked out the way everyone was
hoping, I’d be going halfway around the world to live with a man I hadn’t even met.
Would I ever see my parents again? Don’t send me so far away, I wanted to
cry, but of course I didn’t. It would be ungrateful. Father had worked so hard to find
this match for me. Besides, wasn’t it every woman’s destiny, as Mother was always
telling me, to leave the known for the unknown? She had done it, and her mother
before her. A married woman belongs to her Husband, her in-laws.
Hot seeds of tears pricked my eyelids at the fairness of it.

17. In summing up..
• So we are dedicating this whole PPT to those
from whom we are inspired, every women of
the world. Thanks to each and everyone who
inspired us…we all see each and every
ordinary people and their struggle…
• Thus we can say that “Literature is the mirror
of society”.
• So this is one Vision.

18. Thanking…
• Thanks to , college , teachers and thanks to
our friends, relatives, thanks to parents, family
members and if we are forgetting, thanks to
all those known and unknown people who
are around us …

19. For more info:
http://davedrashti.blogspot.in/2016/02
/short-story-collection-arranged.html