TRANSNATIONALISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY FILM LITERATURE: ASSIMILATION AND CULTURE CRISIS IN THE MOVIE MRS. CHATTERJEE VS. NORWAY.

Abstract

The modern art of cinema brings forward the stories and struggles of many of many lives through visual art and characters on frames. Indian people living in different countries face different challenges apart from identity crisis and cultural hybridity. The movie talks about an Indian couple who migrates to Norway on account of a job and better living standards. The Norwegian government has a system of child services, where they monitor the children in the household and their upbringing under their parents. As the storyline develops, the Indian parents are deemed unfit to take care of the children and are placed in foster care under the Norwegian government. The movie talks about the ordeals the mother goes through with the Norwegian foster care system and the child services and her fight with the legal houses of both Norway and India to win her children back.  

In this research, the paper discusses about various factors of diaspora that expatriates go through in a foreign land, where the rules, routines and governance is completely different as of that in their homeland. The paper also talks about factors like cultural identity, assimilation and displacement faced by the expatriate community. The foreign hegemony that prevails in immigrant life plays a huge role in being accepted in the host country. The research also focuses on how diplomatic relationship between countries help in aiding people that reside abroad.