{"id":758,"date":"2017-03-30T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T07:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kranjani.wordpress.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2017-03-30T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T07:34:52","slug":"beyond-shaming-her-into-submission-the-female-antagonist-narrative-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2017\/03\/30\/beyond-shaming-her-into-submission-the-female-antagonist-narrative-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond shaming her into submission \u2014 the female antagonist narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By me. Published on March 29, 2017, The Hindu Thread.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I pitched this essay about female antagonists, my editor replied with, \u201cGreat, lead with the unrepentant Neelambari!\u201d Eighteen years on, Neelambari of\u00a0<em>Padayappa<\/em>\u00a0(1999) appears to be the most remembered \u2018villi\u2019 (colloquial for villainess) in Tamil cinema. With good reason. Neelambari is classic Tamil film villi \u2014 a stock character and a shrew \u2014 angry, rich, \u2018modern\u2019 (typically meaning westernised), impulsive, single\/separated, hen-pecking, having an unreasonable hatred for a man or men in general.<\/p>\n<p>And then something changed. Rudra of\u00a0<em>Kodi<\/em>, Vasundhara of\u00a0<em>Adhe Kangal<\/em>\u00a0and Rajalakshmi of\u00a0<em>Achamindri<\/em>\u00a0came along and broke the mould.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/thread\/arts-culture-society\/vamps-that-are-evil-by-nature-not-gender\/article17731023.ece\">I write about a film\u2019s central conflict not revolving around the\u00a0gender of the antagonist, but her ambition, for the Hindu Thread here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By me. Published on March 29, 2017, The Hindu Thread. When I pitched this essay about female antagonists, my editor replied with, \u201cGreat, lead with the unrepentant Neelambari!\u201d Eighteen years on, Neelambari of\u00a0Padayappa\u00a0(1999) appears to be the most remembered \u2018villi\u2019 (colloquial for villainess) in Tamil cinema. With good reason. Neelambari is classic Tamil film villi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else-i-do","category-for-the-love-of-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}