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Item Expression of Repressed Desires in Satyajit Ray's Devi(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016-02) Rai, Om BahadurSatyajit Ray's Devi: The Goddess is often critiqued as a film about disillusionment, decadence and disintegration. It indeed deals with religious superstition, degradation of feudalism and the tragedy of a colonial era conservative Hindu family split between two world views about the existence of the almighty in the late nineteenth century Bengali society. But this thesis tries to explore and examine the underlying theme of expression of repressed desires in the film. Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is the tool to explore this theme, with an emphasis on how he interprets dream sequences to decode the desires that the human begins repress in their subconscious mind thanks to legal, social and moral restrictions. Ray has denied implying anything erotic, incestuous or taboo. Nevertheless, the symbols and images found in his cinematic craft suggest the Freudian undertone in Ray's classic. By interpreting the dream of Kalikinkar, one of the three major characters of the film, with the help of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, this thesis reaches a conclusion that Devi: The Goddess is as much about expression of repressed desires as it is about mysticism, fanaticism, obsession, fate and feminism. The thesis also discusses the concept of Electra complex to apply the process of role reversal to understand how Kalikinkar sees Doyamoyee, who is actually his daughter-in-law, as his motherItem Masculine Female in the Film Mary Kom(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2015-09) Rajbanshi, ParashThis research proves the female masculinity of Mary Kom in the film Mary Kom. Mary Kom is a masculine protagonist who feels more comfortable behaving or looking masculine. She is attributed with masculine traits like power, courage, ambition and firm determination who dreams to live a dignified and independent life with financial prosperity on her own by waging her career in boxing. To pursue her dream of becoming the world's best boxer, Mary Kom denies her father's advice to acquire higher education. She ruptures the traditional normative culture of marriage and feminine roles and establishes dignified and independent masculine identity. She goes distant in early morning to learn boxing skills and fights with wrestler to pay for her boxing learning charge. She travels from country to country pursuing her career in boxing. Finally, she becomes the world's best millionaire champion boxer from her savings of winnings. She buys goods for her family. The cinematographic design: the various camera angles justify the determination and struggle of female protagonist and the visual effects, the lighting and the sound effect of the movie justify how Mary Kom proves to be assertive, proactive and brings reconsideration in the concept of women in the family and in the work place.