A Malayalam film has put wings with the censor board in Mumbai after naming his hero ‘Janaki’. While the film was certified by the Regional Board in Kerala, its release has objected to the character’s name after CBFC’s (Central Board for Film Certification) – referring to Goddess Sita, citing that it refers to Goddess Sita, who is deeply honored as an ideal wife in the epic. Ramayana,

The incident makes an immediate parallel with the Censor Board who passed the 2001 Bollywood film, acting on the biggest names in the Hindi film industry and not one, but four characters were named after Gods Sita. ‘Lajja’, directed and written by Rajkumar Santoshi, was not the success of the box office, but the use of cinema is gradually known as a tool to highlight women’s rights and those systemic oppression.

Subsequently, despite the characteristic of violence and brutal scenes of sexual assault, ‘Lajja’ was certified. Its four prominent women – Manisha Koirala, Madhuri Dixit, Mahima Chaudhary and Rekha – were all named after Sita, and told stories of personal trauma at the hands of a society that ironically worships Sita and Durga like Goddess -Goddess for her flexibility, virtue and power.

The story of the film, avoids a pregnant domestic violence, follows Vaidihi (Koirala), who survives her derogatory husband. During her journey of self -khoj, she meets other women – each fights her battle in a patriarchal world.

Chaudhary’s character, Maithili, raises his voice against dowry. Dixit’s Janaki faces a society that forced the goddess to humiliate herself Fire pariksha – Even after ending imprisonment and harassment under Ravana, to prove his purity. Rekha’s character, Ramdulari, is a Dalit woman who is gang rape and murder.

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‘Lajja’ was a persecutor depiction of female harassment and was a symbolic tribute to the goddess who had to prove her honor for the world in front of her husband.

Now, in ‘Janaki vs State of Kerala’, the film currently denied certification – the hero is a woman who is fighting a legal battle after attacking. Malayalam Director B Annik Rrishnan revealed on 23 June that the board demanded a name change, saying, “The story is about an attacked legal battle against the state. It is said (by the board) that Goddess Sita’s name cannot be named to the female character who was attacked.”

But, is not the most suitable person, even symbolically luxurious, there is a name for a woman who is fighting back? Goddess Sita, Bhi, protest – mental, emotional and spiritually – when kidnapped. Yes, the scriptures say that Ravana never touched him. But was there no amount of emotional pain, psychological imprisonment, attack?

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As described in the Ramayana of Valmiki, he used a blade of grass as a symbolic barrier to reprimand Ravana’s advances. He tolerated Durses for years, closed his pressure, alone in a foreign land.

Renocated Sanskrit scholar, Hara Prasad Shastri, in his English translation Ramayana,

She was there. Forcibly kidnapped and held against his will.

Centuries later, a film shows another Janaki – it is a, also, fighting a survivor back. However, a panel of sensor board officials – whose role is to certify a film, not to determine creative options – it decides that the woman who has been attacked can not take the name of a goddess, who was subject to trauma, insult and separation herself.

If there is a name that corresponds to such a character, it is Sita. And if there is no hypocrisy compared to silence, then it is: worshiping a goddess for her grace under the fire – a woman refusing the same grace, which dare to recover her story.

If a film only uses that name as a symbol of artistic expression, today suffers, perhaps the fight for justice and dignity that was standing for Goddess Sita… still continues.