{"id":4296,"date":"2016-06-06T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2016-06-06T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:05:57","slug":"six-years-of-queen-kangana-ranaut-feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"7 Years of Queen: The Complicated Legacy of the Film that Celebrated Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Q<\/span>ueen<\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> completes seven years this week. In a completely unrelated turn of events, it&#8217;s also been a year since\u00a0<\/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;\"> announced that she was gifting herself (and the rest of the world) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/bollywood\/kangana-ranaut-gifts-herself-10-days-of-silence-ahead-of-her-birthday\/story-GCnW8dwinMbHSdD3UgOtvL.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 days of silence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> before her birthday. Back then, my Twitter timeline had celebrated the news with a relieved sigh before quickly dissolving into a blur of loud, angry and largely misplaced arguments about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/feminism-update-me-too-nuance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feminism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and our general hatred for women with opinion \u2014 unironically dragging down actual women with opinion. And that right there is a sneak peek into the legacy of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a snapshot of how the world has evolved and devolved ever since its release.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rewatching <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a surreal experience. And for once, it isn\u2019t because a movie has aged so horribly, you question your own sensibility and past self for ever liking it. On the contrary, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a rare legit classic, as relevant today as it was in 2014. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> legacy, however, is a complicated mess, a seminal piece of art cursed to bear the burden of its creative mind who got swamped in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/sexual-harasser-person-year\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#MeToo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wave. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That wave, where <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/sexual-harassment-women-safety-eve-teasing-india-mumbai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sexual harassment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allegations were levelled against director Vikas Bahl by multiple women, brought down an entire production house \u2013 which is difficult to reconcile with the movie\u2019s feminist underpinnings about freedom and identity. It reminds you how much it hurts when we are forced to separate the art from the artist. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then there is Kangana, the fiery feminist icon who really discovered herself in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and took on the many evils of Bollywood, destroying <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/fitoor-mishra\/fitoor-mishra-womens-day-bollywood-stereotypes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stereotypes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both onscreen and off. And then one day, veered far right and transformed into an anti-liberal, extremist mouthpiece whose favourite gossip partner was a loaded Godman who regularly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zgX6utH4bBI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">murders science<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Queen\u2019s legacy, however, is a complicated mess, a seminal piece of art cursed to bear the burden of its creative mind who got swamped in the #MeToo wave.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be fair, Kangana\u2019s personal beliefs are none of our business, and what she has done is no different from her politically well-aligned male counterparts. It is harder to process simply because the ideologies she has aligned herself with are based on the same patriarchal foundations that she had always seemingly rallied against, the foundations that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was designed to assail. The incongruence is not entirely unexpected. But it is still disturbing. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2014, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a feminist fantasy that seemed like a great aspirational fairytale, but in a lot of ways too good to be true. Then, I turned to travelling to \u201cfind myself\u201d, and just like Rani, a bunch of transient <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/thank-you-next-todays-relationships-and-gadgets-arent-made-to-last\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">relationships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 friends, acquaintances, and fellow travelers became my companions in that life-altering quest. Cut to 2019, an eventful life and multiple adventures later, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> transcended the fairytale status and became a story that resonates with my life experiences in ways few other things can. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before I set out to travel, it was easy to dismiss the parallel world of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where solo women <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/millennial-obsession-travelling-world\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">travellers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stayed in co-ed hostels. It was even easier to dismiss the idea of finding male roommates who were warm, friendly, safe and respectful \u2014 strangers in foreign lands who became better friends than the ones you spent a lifetime with. And yet, as I discovered, few bonds can match the ones we forge when we travel. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pertinence of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the film does not end there. In this post #Metoo era, where women all over the world have a dawning realisation of the support they can find in each other, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s refreshing take on Rani\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/friendship-breaking-up-bffs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">friendship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Lisa Hayden\u2019s Vijay resonates like never before. A fine example of on-screen female bonding, their friendship shines because it defies every stereotype built around female friendships: It isn\u2019t a relationship that is raucous like sorority sisters, or catty, or rising from the debris of gossip and bitching. Instead, Rani and Vijay\u2019s friendship remains understated, with a solid foundation of non-judgmental support and understanding. They are two wildly different women who are happy to let each other be, and if that is not a model of friendship worth emulating, I don\u2019t know what is. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Irreconcilable discordance aside, Queen is a winner not because of its lead actors and makers, but despite them.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My absolute favourite scene, the one that summarises their relationship, is where after preparing for a wild night out, Rani asks Vijay to do something else. She agrees, no hesitation whatsoever, happy to give up her fun night for watching the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/series\/hype-weds-hysteria\/the-safawallah-of-paris\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eiffel Tower<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 something that was probably not half as magical for her as it was for Rani. It was a remarkable moment because it rang so true. Because that is what girlfriends do, irrespective of whether they\u2019re transient or long term, offline or online. They don\u2019t just listen to you ugly-cry over a breakup, nurse your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/grub\/breakfast-of-champion-drinkers-hangover-cure\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hangover<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and make fun of your idiot relatives. They give up their own cherished plans at the drop of a hat, just because you asked them to. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kangana\u2019s recent vow of silence is an excellent, unintended tribute to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which for all its flamboyant feminism, is a quiet movie that makes its best statement in its silences. Even in the most dramatic moments, Rani chooses to face her fears and let go of her past without bitterness, drama and long-winded speeches. Her final declaration of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/technology\/india-eu-usa-internet-freedom\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">freedom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is topped off with a heartfelt \u201cthank you\u201d to her ex-fiance, a gratitude you feel in your bones, having seen the world through Rani\u2019s eyes. Not to mention the subtle point <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes with my most favourite character in the history of Hindi cinema \u2014 a \u00a0chaste Urdu speaking pole dancer who did not mind her job and refused to be ashamed of it, destroying every female stereotype ever known to man in a single stroke.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irreconcilable discordance aside, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a winner not because of its lead actors and makers, but despite them. It is a piece of art with a life of its own, a story that makes you feel connected to the world in ways few things can. Beyond the feminism, it is a story of human triumph that gives you hope and makes you want to fight for your happiness. It makes you want to believe in people, in friends, in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/grief-and-the-comfort-of-strangers-death\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strangers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who become your fleeting accomplices in the journey of life. And that is the true legacy of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewatching Queen is a surreal experience. For once, it isn\u2019t because a movie has aged so horribly, you question your own sensibility and past self for ever liking it. On the contrary, Queen is a rare legit classic, as relevant today as it was in 2014. 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