{"id":4098,"date":"2016-05-17T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2016-05-17T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T11:21:55","slug":"manikarnika-kangana-ranaut-priyanka-gandhi-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4098","title":{"rendered":"Rearview | Manikarnika, Priyanka Gandhi, and What Indian Women Do When the Men Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>esterday, like so many of us biding the interim period until <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gully Boy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> releases in mid-February, I watched Kangana Ranaut\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/kangana-ranaut-manikarnika\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manikarnika<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The Queen of Jhansi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I have to say I was not even a little surprised, because it turned out to be as hoarse, as strident, as mildly amusing as it promised in the run-up to the release. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ranaut, who I otherwise really enjoy watching on screen and off it, replaces her formidable acting chops with jaw-clenching and dead-serious eye-balling through all of the important scenes. She is surrounded by a coterie of loser-ly men; the clueless English officers all seem to have arrived at a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/halloween-india-trick-treat-candies-usa-holidays-spooky-costumes-theme-parties\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Halloween<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> party dressed as Alex DeLarge from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Clockwork Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we wrote, the staccato <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manikarnika<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feels little more than a visual recap of your middle-school <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/manikarnika-film-review-kangana-ranaut\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">history textbook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Not once do you get an insight into the queen\u2019s interior life or any trait of her personality beyond her courage: For instance, you know she loves books, but the level of her engagement with them seems at par with any Instagram \u201cbooks influencer\u201d.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t really comment on the historical accuracy of the depiction, but I am fairly certain that Rani Lakshmibai did not discover that she was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/earth-humans-population-children\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pregnant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while dancing with plebs to an item number \u2013 I could have sworn they were chanting \u201ctequila, tequila re\u201d \u2013 in the middle of a tribal settlement. Or that she, shot through the middle of her chest and aware that she was about to die, looked Hugh Rose in the eye as she gave herself up to a raging fire. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, there is something empowering about watching a woman \u2013 and I mean both Rani Lakshmibai and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/welcome-to-the-bolly-patriots-club-kangana-ranaut\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kangana Ranaut<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 breaking tradition, no matter how hyperbolic the means. I can\u2019t remember the last time, or ever, that I heard a hall full of young men cheering for a woman hero who schools her army general, tells the English to fuck off <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in English<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and performs <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baahubali<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-level stunts, scaling up elephants and fort walls alike. Maybe they were reacting to the hyper-nationalistic rhetoric that is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manikarnika<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s cache, especially in these charged times. But that kind of adoration is usually reserved for our male heroes, for our Rajinikanths and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/salman-khan-jail-jodhpur\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salman Khans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and we will hoot for them every single time they swallow bullets or overturn automobiles with a flick of their wrists. So it was deeply satisfying to watch her leap off the facade of a fort on horseback, her child tied to her back \u2013 the very picture of an average Indian working mother.<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Where Manikarnika is harsh and boisterous, Priyanka Gandhi is the picture of quiet elegance \u2013 less Queen and more yasss kween.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But did the legend of Rani Lakshmibai really need any embellishment? The much-mythologised queen\u2019s story is eye-wateringly incredible enough: A 19th-century Indian woman, educated in the battle arts, not born a royal, but who rose to become a rani beloved of her subjects. A woman of extraordinary strength and resolve who led an army of men <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and women<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into battle. As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Leisure\/utYk4ZLoWwWPv7Eg7XnD8M\/Manubaithe-rani-before-the-battle.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this column<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Mint Lounge points out, \u201cOnce, it is said in a story that survives in multiple iterations, the Peshwa\u2019s adopted son refused to take her along on his elephant. Years later, when she was granted three wishes on her wedding, she expended one of them to courier to this old friend the present of a particularly mighty elephant.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came back last night aching to read Subhadra Kumari Chauhan\u2019s \u201cJhansi Ki Rani\u201d \u2013 yes, that epic poem we were all forced to mug up for every recitation competition. Not once in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/ssc-students-school-hierarchy-system\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">school<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> did it inspire anything in me, but last night, despite the hyperbole and magnification, it proved to be far more poignant than the film \u2013 sample this verse that compares her to the goddesses Lakshmi, Durga, and Bhavani. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lakshmi thi ya Durga thi woh swayam veerta ki avatar,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dekh Marathey pulkit hotey uski talwaron key vaar,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nakli yudh-vyuh ki rachna aur khelna khoob shikar,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sainya gherna, durg todna yeh they uskey priya khilwad.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maharashtra-kul-devi uski bhi aaradhya Bhavani thi,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bundeley harbolon ke munh hamne suni kahani thi,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali Rani thi.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manikarnika<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, another woman leader made her debut in the Indian political firmament, although, on the opposite end of the spectrum. Where <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manikarnika<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is harsh and boisterous, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/priyanka-gandhi-congress-uttar-pradesh-2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Priyanka Gandhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the picture of quiet elegance \u2013 less Queen and more yasss kween. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So loud have the calls for Priyanka\u2019s entry into politics been, and for so long now, that I feel like I already know her, that we could sit down for a cup of tea and have so much to talk about. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I might ask her, for instance, about this long-winded delay: Is she really the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/opinion\/is-priyanka-gandhi-the-greatest-victim-of-patriarchy-in-indian-politics\/92598\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cgreatest victim of patriarchy\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or was she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india\/when-my-father-was-killed-i-was-furious-with-the-whole-world-priyanka\/story-0hF238q4vuDaJLrpwIqbjL.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">perfectly happy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> staying out of politics? Is she now entering the fray of her own accord, or is she \u2013 like Sonia Gandhi in 1998 \u2013 being brought in to rescue a party on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/910813\/how-priyanka-gandhi-went-from-reclusive-politician-to-congress-trump-card-in-20-years\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">life support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? What does she make of the pressure of being the smarter, brighter, more appealing Gandhi sibling and inevitable comparisons with her grandmother? Grande or venti? And the question that has everyone flummoxed \u2013 what about Robert Vadra really appealed to her? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though she is only just embarking on a political career and is yet to stand the test of the ballot, Gandhi is another much mythologised woman. Tales of her stepping in where her brother and her husband have failed, whether in politics or at life, are par for the course in Delhi circles. The legend of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/priyanka-gandhi-congress-uttar-pradesh\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Priyanka Gandhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, without any actual evidence, abides. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am already wondering: How will history remember her? We\u2019ll probably know in a few years. All I hope is, she gets a better biopic than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Accidental Prime Minister<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n\n\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rearview is a column that draws connections between the events of the past week. This time, two much mythologised Indian women occupied our timelines. 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