Fw: [Reader-list] The Vedavatis of this world

[Tapas Ray]

I think the question boils down to this: can you see the text (Vedavati's 
film) as completely autonomous of the author? Maybe one can interpret it in 
total isolation from its roots, in which case it can be seen as autonomous. 
But that will be only one of many possible interpretations, and "the point 
survives" (as I believe some lawyers like to say) that it was born of a 
concrete situation, at the hands of a person who is herself the product of 
history, both biologically and psychologically, with a certain genetic 
make-up and situated in a certain social setting. If the text is, thus, both 
autonomous and rooted in the author, no matter how the reader "reads" it, is 
it not sure to retain traces of the author's persona? In that case, aren't 
Vedavati's films for children a matter of concern, as Yousuf suggests?

Tapas

> judging the film by its merit, with what the film is, rather than what the 
> filmmaker has been
> saying on an online mailing list?