Why YRKKH season 3 is a classic? Chapter 7: Jadi Bhutiyan- Page 19 - Page 17

Brilliant - you've done it again Prof. Ekahriz! 👏

The only thing I would request is the inclusion of Typhoon Jijaji blowing apart this fragile ecological equilibrium, causing the exploitative capitalist element to further burden the resources of this rural ecosystem to compensate for its resulting losses.

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Chapter 7

Jadi Butiyan And Nature;

A Study Of YRKKH Through An Environmental Lens

The relationship between the earthy subdued women of YRKKH and the nature is an ode to eco feminism. Akshara is an extremely feminine, down to earth woman and also a victim of harrassment by her own sister, similar to the 'nature' that is always giving but is at the receiving end of exploitation and modernity. Aarohi is brash, modern and materialistic and constantly exploits Akshara, similar to the technologic advancements that reaps destruction on our environment on a daily basis, as Vandana Shiva argues. This parallel is obvious in the sisters' choice of profession as well. Akshara is a music therapist and believes in the healing power of nature through its jadi bhutiyan whereas Aarohi is a modern doctor whose faith is in big pharma that exploits and pollutes water resources all over the world.

This is hardly one reference to the importance of environment and ecology in the show. We all are well aware that tribal communities, and especially their languages are a repository of environmental and ecological knowledge. With the increasing extinction of tribal languages, we are losing centuries of accumulated knowledge about medicines and biodiversity. Akshara, however is the savarna savior who has accessed these from the tribes of Rajastan, ensuring they are cataloged well. As I mentioned in the first chapter, she is a subaltern as well as Gramsci's organic intellectual. She is a token subaltern because she is an ally to the subaltern cause (tribes in this scenario) and simultaneously gate keeping their knowledge, helping them break out of their shackles and exploitation, by empowering them and bringing these gharelu nuskas back into the mainstream. The modern surgeon Abhimanyu will be assisting her in this, especially by providing these nuskas with credibility.

Additionally, the family mansions of YRKKH are not just concrete structures. Apart for the culture that imbues the homely space, they have vast gardens rich with biodiversity emphasizing on a holistic living intermingling with nature.

Moreover YRKKH families are made of ritual purity. They can never think of depending on the market for those essentials that are core to their traditions and rituals. Hence, the beautiful gardens serve one another purpose. As you can see, the families always utilise mehendi leaves from their gardens and grind it in the traditional way for the mehendi ritual since it can't be "impure". Similarly, Manjari on her own dug out the turmeric which she grew in the Birla gardens and grinded it for the Haldi function to ensure "purity".

Therefore, I would like to conclude this chapter by arguing that nature plays a major role in the everyday lives of YRKKH women in ensuring their physical, spiritual as well as ritual purities. Though it took climate change to hit us hard on our faces to make us realise the immediate need for environmental conservation, the women of YRKKH have been the flag bearers of India's environmental movements since the early days.

Note: Akshara has proved her "subalternness" with the muteness she depicted in the last few days and finally spoke today with the help of her male savior.

PS: I am back. I had a major academic's block, but the forum gifted me with much inspiration today. Read and leave your comments please. And forgive me if it is not upto the mark.

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Lol. 🤣🤣🤣

On a serious note, if that happens I will go jump in the Arabian Sea.

@india_tv I don't have the patience to travel to Kanyakumari. So don't come running to show your love for India, especially since it's Republic Day today.

🤣🤣

I love INDIA....mera naam hi pahachaan hai...😂

dekho....INDIAN OCEAN..and ARABian SEA...koi comparison hi nahi...bas because of ur lack of patience....dono ko comaparble nahi bana sakte na...😂

But usse bhi badi baat....aap Oceam/Sea mein jump hi kyun karoge...saara talent DHUL jaayega...

So Jumping in the water...cancelled...[LOL}

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Exactly, it's soul wala love. Haven't you seen them talking through their eyes? How Akshara falls down all the time? Nolan proved that love and gravity are ways to communicate across dimensions. Can't you see the soul wala love and the role gravity plays in Abhimanyu's and Akshara's relationship? Thank you for prodding me. I think Theoretical Physics has just entered the scene. Oh, God. YRRKH is transcending time, space and gravity. I think this show is the 6th dimension.

Go go go!! Ekahriz eagerly waiting your next installment where Theoretical Physics makes an entry.. Its my subject

Originally posted by: austen-eliot

Go go go!! Ekahriz eagerly waiting your next installment where Theoretical Physics makes an entry.. Its my subject

Brace yourself for a space warping love story and Abhimanyu's blackhole gravitas! 😍

PS: Please keep showering your blessings, guruji.

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Brace yourself for a space warping love story and Abhimanyu's blackhole gravitas! 😍

PS: Please keep showering your blessings, guruji.

Please include a commentary on Arohi's ability to bend the space-time continuum to her will by going to Manipur, coming back, getting dressed up in her wedding finery, and still having the energy to school JIJAJI and Akshu, all within the daylight hours of the SAME DAY😆

Originally posted by: Intoxicator

Please include a commentary on Arohi's ability to bend the space-time continuum to her will by going to Manipur, coming back, getting dressed up in her wedding finery, and still having the energy to school JIJAJI and Akshu, all within the daylight hours of the SAME DAY😆

Yaar, why do you want me to bring Aarohi into a love story that transcends space, time and gravity? I am trying to do justice to AbhiRa love and you want to drag Aarohi there also? That's a big, no.

If you want, I can try adding a small note at the end.

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Yaar, why do you want me to bring Aarohi into a love story that transcends space, time and gravity? I am trying to do justice to AbhiRa love and you want to drag Aarohi there also? That's a big, no.

If you want, I can try adding a small note at the end.

Nahi nahi, you're right! Bahut badi galti kar di maine 😭

That's like asking for a fly to be placed into a bisque😆

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Chapter 5

Gender Box and Performitivity;

An In-depth Analysis of Gender Roles in YRKKH

Simone De Beauvoir famously said "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman". Rooted in phenomenology, she goes on to explain how the fundamental source of women's oppression is its historical and social construction.

Butler takes this a step forward and coins the term 'Gender Performitivity' to explain that belonging to different sexes doesn't determine one's behavior or characteristics. Butler pointed out that based on history and society, people learn to fit into the society by performing certain acts over and over that it became the norm. These norms or rules became quintessential to gender identities. These accepted set rules of societal behavior is the gender box.

When the show depicts Akshara falling into the box, what we see is Akshara's gender conformity. She is the damsel in distress, weak and vulnerable usually considered as feminine qualities, and of course she is rescued by a cis-het man, always the savior. However do not be mistaken. This is a well thought out attempt at breaking gender stereotypes. They are taking the responsibility of breaking the gender stereotypes from the shoulders of women and placing it on men. Why should women have to do everything? Men should share equal responsibilities.

This is where Abhimanyu falling into the box becomes relevant. It's a representation of how men can be weak and vulnerable as well. Unlike Akshara he is not willing to show his weakness in the first instance, so he becomes grumpy clinging onto his conventional masculinity, but one look at the laughing Akshara he softens, smiles and is helped out of the box by her. With that one act, he leaves his conventional masculinity in the box and emerges as the post modern man. Akshara still is the damsel in distress, but Abhimanyu is not the definition of conventional toxic masculinity anymore because he cries, he softens for the love of his mother and lover, he becomes innocent like a child with vulnerabilities and incapabilities to deal with problems; characteristics conventionally associated with female gender.

Hence Abhimanyu here, is the postmodern man on whose shoulders the responsibility of gender equality lies in this show. I am concluding this chapter by reiterating that as emerging young women we should be grateful for such a male character who is the ultimate savior.

PS: I hope I am able to show justice in deconstructing this show. Please do share your thoughts.

Honestly, that’s what I felt too! 😍 Great minds do think alike, don’t they? ❤️ Abhi in the box actually felt like he didn’t want to be in that place. Who would? But when he looks at her laughing form, he finds in himself the ability to laugh at himself and the situation he has literally fallen in. 📦

You’re being very thorough in your deconstruction. 👏🏻 I wonder how we have been so ignorant to not look deeper. I’m glad we now have you to enlighten us with the theories of the world and of the Abhira Land. 😍😅

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Chapter 6

Theatrics And Dance With The Self;

The Curtain Finally Fell Or Has it?

"All the world's a stage, and all men and women merely players" - Shakespeare.

Ervin Goffman expands this idea into a dramaturgical approach to studying the minutiae of everyday face to face interactions of people. He used the imagery of the theatre to portray the importance of human and social action. All actions, Goffman urged are social performances that aims to give and maintain certain desired impressions of oneself to others. In social interactions, humans are actors on a stage giving a performance for an audience.

Isn't this what Abhimanyu and majorly Akshara has been doing? Both of them are performing an act that they are happy with their circumstances on a daily basis. They are doing this in order to elicit certain impressions from the people around them. For Akshara, she wants Aarohi to see her sisterly love, and for Abhimanyu, he wants his mother to see him as happy and moving forward. Thus, they are constantly putting up a theatrical performance on the Goenka and Birla stages respectively.

However, applying Freudian psychology here, we can see that Abhimanyu's id is stronger than his ego or super-ego when it comes to Akshara. So the taking over of id makes him act out of character causing cracks in his act and his self visible. Whereas in, Akshara is a tough nut to crack and hence is a master in impression management.

Goffman discusses that the only time individuals can be themselves and get rid of their role or identity in society is the backstage, i.e. where no audience is present. This is what happens during the curtain dance. For all the exhaustion from their performance, when they see the curtains, they visualize the ends of their act and their real self tends to come out. So, they engage in a dance off between their real self and their social self. Abhimanyu is successful in binding the curtain and creating visibility for his self in the end, but Akshara is still shown as trying to find a way out of the curtains because she is the queen of drama as Abhimanyu would say. It's not that easy to break her act since her theatrics have been going for a while.

PS: Hope this is sufficient enough. Coz I am getting bored of this show.

Give me your dose of boredom, please. Your boredom makes so much sense, how would your ideal brain in its most active state work like? 😍 My brain is a scrambled mess 🤯 even at its most effective state. And a hard nut to crack when struck with boredom. Numb and dumb just like our darling Akshu in front of her Aru. 😢

So truee! I’m itching to find out a way to send this to the creatives to know if this was what they’d intended to show when they’d shot that sequence.

No, really! You are spot on with this one! 😍😍

Originally posted by: Ekahriz

Chapter 7

Jadi Butiyan And Nature;

A Study Of YRKKH Through An Environmental Lens

The modern surgeon Abhimanyu will be assisting her in this, especially by providing these nuskas with credibility.

Similarly, Manjari on her own dug out the turmeric which she grew in the Birla gardens and grinded it for the Haldi function to ensure "purity".

Though it took climate change to hit us hard on our faces to make us realise the immediate need for environmental conservation, the women of YRKKH have been the flag bearers of India's environmental movements since the early days.

Note: Akshara has proved her "subalternness" with the muteness she depicted in the last few days and finally spoke today with the help of her male savior.

PS: I am back. I had a major academic's block, but the forum gifted me with much inspiration today. Read and leave your comments please. And forgive me if it is not upto the mark.

Hain!? I never in my wildest imagination could relate their gardening skills to ecology. I blame my mind for its foolish Bollywood tendencies to relate to all songs with one Suraj Barjatya’s lens. 😥

You mean all this time my stupid brain fooled me into thinking ‘Angna mein pyaar k Gulaab jo khil khil jaate hain, rishton ki baghiya mehek jaati hai..’ was a metaphorical lyrical tribute to the people and their relationships formed by love. All this while they Rajshri, Gayatri, Bhabima, Akshara, Mimi, Swarna.. all these women so enthusiastically singing this song were actually secretly (or not!) promoting and predicting their descendant’s (Akshu’s) possible inclination towards ‘Swachh duniya, swasth duniya’ and Akshu finally came out in the open? My poor heart can only take so much in a day! 😢 😝