The Narrative Ploy of Double casting -Reincarnates of the Star Bodies in Hindi Films
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https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2024.v09.n05.024Keywords:
Double, star, post-colonial, myth, bricoleur, post-modernAbstract
This paper through a critical review of extant literature and analysis of prevalent discourse seeks to understand the narrative strategy of deploying stars in double casts or rules within a film. As a popular devise it has been recurrently deployed by successive generation of film makers from the early years of film making and to contemporary times. Apparently informed by the production logic of amplification of star value, this bricoleur ploy is embedded in mythical pantheon of plural incarnates of deities, in the anxiety and ambivalence of colonial and post- colonial experiences. It is unequivocally also an adaptation from Western literary paradigm and traditions.
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