Compromised Female Space in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

Abstract

his thesis analyses the compromised female space in Yash Chopra’s Dilwale Duhaniya Le Jayenge. My argument is that the cultural heritage that people possess and the ideologies that shape out their socio-cultural structure travel with the people wherever they go. Women are supposed to obey the males and limit themselves within the boundaries of the patriarchal ideologies. Thus, the religion, rituals, cultural heritage and patriarchal ideologies of the land of their birth place (India) are decisive in shaping the notion of family, marriage, freedom and autonomy to the women among the diasporic Indian communities of the western metropolitian location.