Take a Sad Song and Make it Better: An Alternative Reading of Anglo-Indian Stereotypes in Shyamaprasad’s Hey Jude (2018)

Authors

  • Glenn D'Cruz

Abstract

This Paper provides an alternative approach to understanding the function of Anglo-Indian culture in Shyamaprasad’s Malayalam language film Hey Jude (2018). Drawing on his theorization of Anglo-Indian Stereotypes in his book Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature (Peter Lang, 2006), the author contests the reading of the film offered by Rajesh James and Priya Alphonsa Mathew in their recent article, ‘Between Two Worlds: Anglo-Indian Stereotypes and Malayalam Cinema.’ Rather than hastily dismissing representations of Anglo-Indians in Hey Jude as stereotypical and offensive, this critique of James and Mathew’s argument underscores the importance of situating the film in a broader context and paying more detailed attention to the cultural work performed by its themes and tropes.

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Published

2018-12-30