![]() ![]() And one of the meanings of the word virgin is uncorrupted, untainted, untamed, which in the case of a young woman can mean undomesticated. In all Indian languages, the word kanya means a young girl, a daughter or a virgin. Her name means made of earth, pure earth. She is a child of the earth, one with the earth. Kedarnath Agarwal’s poem Hawa Hoon, Hawa Mein comes instantly to mind: She is as much a child of nature as a little fawn is, as a young tiger cub is, as a butterfly is, as a growing tree is, as a running brook is, as the wind and the rain are. The original meaning of the Hindi word ‘abodh’ expresses well what she is – totally unselfconscious. Hers is the beauty of primal creation, as we are born from nature, as nature made us, before the sin of self-consciousness – being a self separate from everything else, having an existence separate from the rest of the world, what many call ‘the curse of the ego’ – entered our minds. She is a child of nature, pure and simple. ![]() Perhaps this is what Rousseau wanted each one of us to become when he gave the call for the world to go back to nature. Here is a young female uncorrupted by the world, uncorrupted by society, uncorrupted by adult values and adult perceptions. ![]() Hers is a world full of magic and mystery, and as you start seeing the world through her eyes, you go under its enchanting spell. As you enter her world you are totally enticed by her, her beauty goes straight to your heart and you become light headed. She bewitches you endlessly – in the most positive sense of the term. The young girl, a nymphet, a Lolita, is irresistibly appealing. I was fascinated by Mrinmoyee – Minoo as she is called by most people in the movie – as she is pictured by the great master Ray. Samapti became to me a woman centred film, albeit centred on a very young woman. But it was with the knowledge that this is the third and final movie of the trilogy that I saw it and since the trilogy is titled Teen Kanya – Three Daughters, Three Virgins or Three Young Women – I focused on the kanya in the movie, Mrinmoyee and saw the whole movie as centred on her. I hadn’t seen the earlier two movies of Satyajit Ray’s Teen Kanya trilogy when I saw the last one, Samapti – I still haven’t seen them as I write this. ![]()
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