LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:7 July 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Study of Visual Rhetoric in Akku and India’s Daughter

P. Ponnivalavan, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate

Akku Drama

Abstract

This paper considers the short film Akku and the documentary India’s daughter as two different forms of visual rhetoric on the same issue. Both these films deal with the gang rape of Jyoti Nirbhaya Singh in India’s capital, Delhi. The films would be compared in the paper in terms of their rhetorical efficiency and an analysis of the techniques and aesthetic devices used by the film makers to achieve the intended effect.

Keywords: Nirbhaya, Delhi, Gang Rape, Rhetoric, Documentary, India’s Daughter, Leslee Udwin.

Nirbhaya – A Symbol of Long Struggle

India's Daughter

Nirbhaya was the name used by the press to discuss the brutal gang rape and fatal assault of twenty three year old Jyoti Singh Pandey, a Physiotherapy intern, by six men when she was travelling with a friend in a school bus on the night of 16th December, 2012. The media used the name Nirbhaya, which means fearless for the sole reason that the Indian government does not allow the rape victim’s name to be publicized. On 29th December 2012 Jyoti Singh passed away due to the mortal injuries inflicted on her by her assailants. This created a massive public unrest and four of the convicts were sentenced to death by a fast-track court. Since one of the convicts was a juvenile, he was sent to a reform facility for a period of three years. One of the five other convicts had apparently killed himself in police custody.

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P. Ponnivalavan, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Madras Christian College
East Tambaram
Chennai – 600 059
Tamilnadu
India
valavan22@gmail.com
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