{"id":8499,"date":"2016-04-05T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=8499"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T06:46:50","slug":"video-page-zinda-laash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/video-page-zinda-laash\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Page: ‘Zinda Laash’, Bollywood\u2019s Norms for \u2018Dhandewali\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zinda Laash <\/em>is a film by Point of View<\/a> on Hindi cinema\u2019s representation of dhandewali<\/em>s (female sex workers):<\/p>\n

‘Dhandewali’s must smoke; ‘<\/em>paan’\u00a0<\/em>is a must; a ‘<\/em>dhandewali’ can\u00a0never<\/strong>\u00a0escape her identity; ‘<\/em>dhandewali’s must dress \u2018differently\u2019\u2026 Spanning over 6 decades of Bollywood cinema, ‘<\/em>Zinda Laash’\u00a0<\/em>highlights how very little has changed across the ages when it comes to the industry\u2019s representation of women in prostitution. Humorously drawing attention to stereotypes, while poignantly highlighting myths, ‘<\/em>Zinda Laash’\u00a0<\/em>is a tribute to every sex worker who is not recognised as a woman or a human being.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For viewing on Pad.ma (a free-to-download online archive of text-annotated video material) the film has been cut into 8 segments that feature representations of clients, friendship, hell, impurities, mannerisms, marriage and love, and the police.<\/p>\n

Featured here is the video on impurities (click on the image below to watch). You can watch the rest of the clips\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"https:\/\/pad.ma\/JO\/player\/00:00:01,00:00:51.083\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Image source: Pad.ma
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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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“‘Dhandewali’s must smoke; paan is a must; a ‘dhandewali’ can never escape her identity; ‘dhandewali’s must dress \u2018differently\u2019\u2026 Spanning over 6 decades of Bollywood cinema, ‘Zinda Laash’ highlights how very little has changed across the ages when it comes to the industry\u2019s representation of women in prostitution. Humorously drawing attention to stereotypes, while poignantly highlighting myths, ‘Zinda Laash’ is a tribute to every sex worker who is not recognised as a woman or a human being.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":8590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,604,13,7],"tags":[28,56,609,613,614,612,610,611],"class_list":{"0":"post-8499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-categories","8":"category-sex-work-and-sexuality","9":"category-videopage","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-bollywood","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-courtesan","14":"tag-dhandewali","15":"tag-media-representation","16":"tag-pad-ma","17":"tag-prostitute","18":"tag-sex-worker"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499","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=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16710,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions\/16710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}