{"id":67717,"date":"2024-11-08T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/nov\/08\/women-are-made-to-feel-as-if-theyre-against-each-other-the-hit-indian-film-that-challenges-the-patriarchy"},"modified":"2024-11-08T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T08:00:04","slug":"women-are-made-to-feel-as-if-theyre-against-each-other-the-hit-indian-film-that-challenges-the-patriarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67717","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women are made to feel as if they\u2019re against each other\u2019: the hit Indian film that challenges the patriarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payal Kapadia\u2019s All We Imagine As Light wowed Cannes with its portrayal of the struggles of women in Mumbai. She talks about inequality, misogyny \u2013 and being haunted<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing ostensibly special about Mumbai, according to Payal Kapadia. There is no iconic building to photograph, no ancient history to mine. \u201cIt\u2019s a post-colonial city that didn\u2019t exist before the British came and joined seven islands, purely for capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for the director, who has become one of Indian cinema\u2019s biggest names, there is a magic at the heart of the country\u2019s financial capital, one imperceptible to the naked eye. \u201cMumbai is defined by the people who travel from all across India to live and work there,\u201d Kapadia says. \u201cThe city is in a constant state of flux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/nov\/08\/women-are-made-to-feel-as-if-theyre-against-each-other-the-hit-indian-film-that-challenges-the-patriarchy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payal Kapadia\u2019s All We Imagine As Light wowed Cannes with its portrayal of the struggles of women in Mumbai. She talks about inequality, misogyny \u2013 and being hauntedThere is nothing ostensibly special about Mumbai, according to Payal Kapadia. There is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,69,62,1203,79,61,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-inequality","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67718,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67717\/revisions\/67718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}