Moral rights and wrongs
(Emphasis mine)For the novel Brick Lane, Ali didn’t need to spend any time at all in the real Brick Lane. Movies are different; permission is now being sought to film the cinematic Brick Lane in the real Brick Lane. The community has the moral right to keep the film-makers out but they cannot then complain if somewhere else is used and presented to the world as Brick Lane…
What on earth is Germaine Greer saying? There are other things in her article that I disagree with, but this statement stopped me in my tracks. Why does she think the community has “the moral right” to keep the film team out of Brick Lane?
And why don’t more people just read books instead of wanting to burn them?
Uma, Any idea how I can get a bloglines subscription to the blogsome Indianwriting address….I was subscribed to your blogspot address, but don’t know how to do the same for this webpage? Please let me know….
Comment by Nandu — July 27, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
Have blogged about this controversy. All the so-called community leaders (all male) who are protesting are just reinforcing the stereotypes that exist about Bangladeshis here.
SO WHAT if some of the Sylhetis of Brick Lane “did not recognise themselves,” as Greer writes. It is maddening.
Comment by MumbaiGirl — July 28, 2006 @ 12:31 am
Nandu, there are some links in the right margin under “meta”. Would any of those help? (I’ve also emailed you)
Mumbai Girl, saw your post, thanks for the link. Community leaders arealmost always male, aren’t they? I went to a multi-faith prayer meeting the other day and there were seven MEN on the stage. If more women were made priests - in ALL religions - we wouldn’t need to pray so much!
(And happy birthday, again :))
Comment by uma — July 28, 2006 @ 1:55 pm