By: Tanisha Banerjee
PG STUDENT (SOCIOLOGY), DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES,
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND CULTURE STUDUES ADAMAS UNIVERSITY
The name of the short film “Chupchap” truly holds the attention of its audience throughout the movie. It has portrayed that how silence can be converted into some compromise or deal. We can see in the film that the husband is a typical person with those orthodox ideas like most men of our patriarchal society. If this same incident would have happened to his daughter, then how would he have reacted? Maybe not in the same way. Maybe he would raise his voice or filed an FIR. It was even easier for the husband to catch those predators because his wife did even remember the number of that car which most of the women couldn’t recall at such a moment. But since this incident has happened to his wife he is least bothered because of social pressure or social prestige or maybe because Indian men’s are taught in the way from the beginning of their life. Maybe this is a problem of socialization of our country. So in such a situation remaining silent is the only option left with women in most of the cases or just go against one’s own family to secure justice.