{"id":10611,"date":"2017-01-05T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T05:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=10611"},"modified":"2019-03-25T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:20:10","slug":"brushstrokes-tweets-feminist-ddlj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-tweets-feminist-ddlj\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: These Tweets Delightfully Feminist Up this Classic Bollywood Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Brushstrokes features usually add a visual dimension to our theme of the month, but this time around, since the theme itself is a visual one, words might befit the section as strokes of genius.<\/p>\n

Twitter was hashtagging the 21st<\/sup> anniversary of the classic Bollywood film, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge<\/em> (1995) a few months ago, and human rights organisation Breakthrough<\/a> did a fun take on it by asking its followers to feminist up the film\u2019s iconic dialogue, \u201cJa, <\/em>Simran, Ja<\/em>,\u201d uttered in the last scene by her patriarch father as he finally lets her go from his frightful clutches so she can leap on to a train.<\/p>\n

Here are some delightful Tweets that did the rounds, with captions by Breakthrough<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Next time, you are buying sanitary napkins and the shopkeeper wraps it in a black <\/em>polythene or brown paper.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Also, when you are bored and walking past any random space remember.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When your exercise routine involves organising women workers before breakfast.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Oh and you do know that notions of beauty are all a social construct right?<\/em><\/p>\n

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And then came the SHOW STOPPER.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Be Simran and challenge gender roles.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Duh!<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is a guy <\/em>traveling around the Eurorail, stealing beer and gatecrashing his girlfriend\u2019s wedding. What privilege!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Pro-Choice, all the way!<\/em><\/p>\n

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What a \u2018pure\u2019 message!<\/em><\/p>\n

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#ImWithHer<\/em><\/p>\n

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We\u00a0curate videos and images based on our monthly theme, and credit and link back to\u00a0their original source.\u00a0<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover image: Movie still from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter was hashtagging the 21st anniversary of the classic Bollywood film, ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ (1995) a few months ago, a human rights organisation did a fun take on it by asking its followers to feminist up the film\u2019s iconic dialogue, \u201cJa, Simran, Ja\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":10688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,1049,7],"tags":[28,1047,121,1050,1059,575],"class_list":{"0":"post-10611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-films-and-sexuality","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-bollywood","12":"tag-ddlj","13":"tag-feminism","14":"tag-films-and-sexuality","15":"tag-hindi-cinema","16":"tag-twitter"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16680,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/16680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}