Center
7.1
Sikandar
(1941)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Parakh (1944)
Parakh (1944)
Overview
A class division melodrama centred on Mehtab’s histrionics. Kiran (Mehtab) is the daughter of a courtesan. Her lowly origins first destroy her marriage and then threaten to jeopardise her son Prakash’s (Singh) ambitions. She is blackmailed for keeping her son’s parentage a secret from him, forcing her to return to her ancestral profession. The film was a commercial success.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
A class division melodrama centred on Mehtab’s histrionics. Kiran (Mehtab) is the daughter of a courtesan. Her lowly origins first destroy her marriage and then threaten to jeopardise her son Prakash’s (Singh) ambitions. She is blackmailed for keeping her son’s parentage a secret from him, forcing her to return to her ancestral profession. The film was a commercial success.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film explores universal moral themes of honesty, greed, and hypocrisy, with its narrative solution emphasizing individual virtue rather than advocating for specific political or systemic changes, leading to a neutral rating.
The movie features traditional casting for its cultural context, with no explicit race or gender swaps of roles as defined by the prompt. Its narrative focuses on a social critique of human greed and corruption, without explicitly portraying traditional identities negatively or centering on DEI themes.
Secondary
The film 'Parakh' by Sohrab Modi does not contain any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. Therefore, an evaluation of its portrayal of queer identity is not applicable.
The film 'Parakh' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its storyline or cast. Consequently, there is no portrayal of transsexual identity to evaluate, leading to a net impact rating of N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Parakh" (1944) is an original production and not an adaptation of pre-existing material with established characters, nor does it feature historical figures or legacy characters from a franchise. Thus, no gender swaps are present.
Parakh (1944) is an original Indian film. There is no evidence of it being an adaptation of a prior work with characters of a different established race, nor does it depict historical figures whose race was altered. Therefore, no race swap occurred.
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