Jugnuma: A Quest for Universals

type

Essay

source publication

The Wire

Abstract

In a reflective note on the movie Jugnuma, Chandrabhan argues that the universals imagined and articulated within the sacred genre are often empty universals. However, the movie moves beyond that and conveys that the structural exploitator’s liberation is not possible in individualistic quest and momentary relief in the cultural code of shiva (see the Shankar’s verses of Vedantic kind mentioned in the essay) or hans (of kabiri genre). It gets its meaning within the social through imagining and articulating a collective liberation.

Year

10-20-2025

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