Movie reviews - post colonialism

The Black Prince

The Black Prince is a 2017 international historical drama film directed by Kavi Raz and featuring the acting debut of Satinder Sartaaj. It tells the story of Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire and the Punjab area, and his relationship with Queen Victoria.
This movie talked about two cultures. Duleep Singh torn between two cultures and facing constant dilemmas as a result. The relationship between Duleep singh and Queen Victoria is shown very impactful. The Queen representing the English culture he was drawn into. Maharaja Duleep Singh is placed on the throne at the age of five. In 1849, the young prince was removed from the throne and separated from his mother. Dr. John Login protected him. Duleep Singh met Queen Victoria at England at the age of 15. They developed their relationships .
Duleep Sing met to his mother and reestablished the relationship. Then he decided to return to India to reclaim his kingdom. But it was continually thwarted by British colonial politics. The Black Prince began a lifelong struggle to reclaim his kingdom.

Midnight’s Children

Midnight’s children is a 2012 Canadian British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast of Satya Bhabha , Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan, Ronit Roy, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azami, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabharti, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Anita Majumdar, and Darsheel Safari. With a Screen play by Rushdie and directed by Deepa Mehta, the film began principal photography in Colombo, Sri Lanka in February 2011 and wrapped in May 2011. Shooting was kept a secret as Mehta feared protests by Islamic fundamentalist groups. Saleem Sinai is born in Mumbai at the same moment that the independent nation of India is born. Saleem is very self centered and self conscious. He told the whole story. In Saleem’s narrative, history, memory, and fantasy are represented by three powerful metaphors: pickling, a perforated sheet, and a silver spittoon inlaid with lapis lazuli. These metaphors permeate the story.

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Wordsworth's preface to Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads L yrical Ballads , collection of poems, first published in 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth , the appearance of which is often designated by scholars as a signal of the beginning of English Romanticism . The work included Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” as well as many controversial common-language poems by Wordsworth, such as “The Idiot Boy.” The “Preface” to the second edition (1800) contains Wordsworth’s famous definition of poetry as the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” and his theory that poetry should be written in “the language really used by men.” 1) What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of 'classicism' and 'Romanticism'? Answer) There are two ideologies. We can say that, Romanticism is feel they are free to express in simple ma

Youth Festival 2018: Academic Task

Our University has organised "Aishvaryam Youth Festival 2018" for 3 days from 26/10/2018 to 28/10/2018. Many events were organised in the youth festival. They are: Kalayatra, Quiz, poetry recitation, on the spot painting, mimicry, bhajan, cartooning, paper collage, mono acting, sugam geet, folk dance, solo folk dance, western dance, western solo dance, folk orchestra, essay writing, elocution, rangoli...etc,. A month ago, all the students started their preparation for youth festival. There were many rules of youth festival. All the participates got their own identity card. I could not attend all events. Because I was presented at our department as a volunteer. Quiz and Essay writing competitions were organised at our department. On 26 October, the first round of Quiz was stared. On 27 October, the final round of quiz and essay writing were organised. The time of final round of quiz was at 9:00 a.m

The Pinteresque features of The Birthday Party

The Pinteresque features of The Birthday Party In roduction:- Two of the notable facts about Harold Pinter were, first , that he was a Jew, born of Jewish parents, and , second, that he worked as an actor for some time before he became a playwright. Pinter was born on the 10 th October, 1930 in Hackney , a London borough. By the time of his birth the Jewish population of North London had risen from about 5000 in 1880 to about 40,000. The North London Jewry was known for its solid middle class respectability and religious conformity. In view of the economic insecurity which the family felt, Pinter’s father worked very hard, working twelve hours a day, making clothes. Eventually, however the old man lost his business and had to work for somebody else. Pinter never forgot this situation in his early life – the combination of calm and unrest beauty and ugliness; and these qualities permeate his work. Personal history had deeply influenced all Pinter’s writing.

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