Rehanna @ Miranda House

Our third screening was held with a very enthusiastic crowd from the Sociology Department of Miranda House college. The screening was held in the college auditorium and was attended by over around 25-30 students. The day started with the SMILE’rs sharing their Rural Internship experiences with the audience and it managed to generate quiet a lot of interest among the students.


The movie screened was “Rehanna” which is a journey of a Muslim woman who decided to break the shackles imposed on her by the society and work for the betterment of other women who might be in the same position as her own. After the screening was over the general consensus among the audience was that they felt charged up and emotional some of the initial reactions generated from the audience were:

- If you really wish to live a “normal” life then you can challenge the ways.
- Shocked that issues like Domestic Violence, rape and other atrocities among women exist in such magnitude.


-Some of the members of the audience felt that there were no male reactions in the movie and the only two men showed in the movie were smiling and meek. Which led to somebody asking from the audience what would be men’s reaction to the movie to this one of the Sociology Department Professor who was amongst the audience shared his experience


- The notion of oppression of women by women was also discussed, to which some people from the audience said that it is a result of conditioning by the society.


- The issue of Reservation for women in Parliament and Panchayats was also discussed.


- The discussion also touched upon topics more closer home like, wearing clothes appropriate to the society one lives in, perception of women as an object, no identity for women apart from those provided by the society.


In all the discussion led to a lot of us in the audience to think and explore new grounds. We would like to organize more such screenings with the college and a heartfelt thanks to the organizers.


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SMILE'rs

Posted in: , , , on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at at 6:03 PM  

2 comments:

  1. Unknown On September 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM Wrote

    The movie was really inspiring.
    Empowerment of women is essential and that has to be not just in form of education but also economic and political empowerment as that gives you financial independence and freedom to take your own decisions.

  2. Nishu On September 19, 2009 at 5:09 PM Wrote

    Thanks Meenakshi..
    And you are very right in saying that empowerment of women has to be in totality- in all the spheres, be it political, social, economic.
    All this because, it is her right and nobody can take us away from our rights. Constitution guarantees equal rights to men and women and the patriarchial system in our society needs to be uprooted..

    Regards,
    Nishu

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