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How to make female action heroes by Madhusree Dutta (Kayfa ta, 2023)
M was exasperated by her friend’s frivolous attitude toward the tragedy of losing a role. She was not trained to read the potential in R’s wild imagination. Was it a commitment to realism, trained by the ideological morality of activism, that made her unresponsive to the fantasy genre and vigilante characters? R’s instinct was to court the unfamiliar, whereas M’s training was to engage with criticality. Both these attributes could have interfaced in interesting and colourful ways, with sparks and currents, if and only if the social conditions of the time had been conducive to the arrival of a vigilante.
Text by the author Madhusree Dutta