Motherhood, Cinema & Diaspora: Exploring the struggle of Motherhood in Diasporic Association through Cinemas

Abstract

Motherhood is a multifaceted concept that encompasses biological, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions. In English literature, motherhood has been explored through various critical perspectives, focusing on different aspects of this complex phenomenon. Some of the critical perspectives include Feminist Perspective, Psychoanalytic Perspective, Post Colonial Perspective, Diasporic Perspective etc. These perspectives offer diverse frameworks for understanding motherhood highlighting its rich and complex significance as a cultural phenomenon. Popular media, cinemas serve as a creative medium for constructing and reconstructing ideologies serving as a source for studying, examining, and analysing the anticipation of motherhood through Diasporic lens in different socio-cultural environments. In Hindi Cinemas, the concept of motherhood in Diasporic perspective has been paid lesser attention to. This paper explores perspectives of Motherhood that reflects Diasporic anticipations deliberately and analyses cinematic presentation of motherhood in a Diasporic Association. This paper is divided into four segments, Cinematic Presentation of Motherhood, Theoretical Perspectives on Motherhood, Exploration of Cinematic Presentation of Diaspora and Motherhood as Reflected in Cinemas.