Friday, March 29, 2024

Topic: Gulabo Sitabo

Over a haveli: Gulabo Sitabo and contemporary contestations

The octogenarian actor Farrukh Jaffer of Gulabi Sitabo, somehow reminds one of the nanis and dadis of Shaheen Bagh, as her remarkable character Fathima Beegum has got certain resemblances to those elderly women sat at the Delhi-Noida highway, to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act.