Name :- Mansi R Parmar

Roll No :- 16

Paper No :- 5 Literary Theory & Criticism Presentation Topic :- apply structuralism in Hindi movie

Enrolment No :- 2069108420170024

M A English Semester – 2

Batch Year :- 2016 -18

Submitted to :- Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Gerard Genette

Introduction He was born 1930 (Paris) is a French literary theorist .

Associated in particular with the structuralist movement .

He received his professorship in French literature at the Sorbonne in 1967 .

Narrative Discourse : An Essay in ,method .

His essay “structuralism and literary criticism” is most important essay to understand structuralism.

He talks about concept of narratology.

Conti…

Gerard Genette’s structuralism criticism : In this essay ,“structuralism and literary Criticism ” that methods developed for the study of one discipline could be satisfactorily applied to the study of other discipline as well .

According to critic Pramod K . Nayar

“ Structuralism is a form of criticism which sought to understand a work

of art in the context of structure which have genre culture and

language .”

Structuralism

Things can be only understood in relation to a larger structure

Eg . You only understand what a computer is because of how you can use it .

Apply structuralism in Hindi movie As a structuralist way I would like two movie

Bajirao Mastani Ram Leela             

Bajirao Mastani is a 2015 Indian epic historical romance film.

directed Sanjay Leela Bhansali .

three major film star … Ranver Singh as Bajiorao Deepika Padukone as Mastani Priyanka chopra as Bajirav's first wife Kashibai

It is based on Marathi navel .

We can see that in is movie two conflict between cast .

Bajirao and Mastani fall in love but his family can't accept his love .

This movie is written by Siddharth Garima and Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

Here conflict between ‘Marvada’ and ‘Rajputana’.

Three Major film star …

Ranver Singh as Ram and Deepika Padukone as Leela.

Both are felt in love.

Here also two conflict between families

Structure of both movie ;  both movie have a same structure … love

But different structure

Bajirav Mastani - Fight

Ramleela - Revenge