Khoon bhari manga

Paridhi Puri: The imagination blew me away. As you know, I’m a sucker for intertextuality or, what those of us who’ve been on Tumblr long enough know as ‘web weaving’ — finding parallels across media created in different times and different people, but which still hold a kind of spiritual connection to each other. Using SZA’s “Kill Bill” against the backdrop of the cult classic Khoon Bhari Maang — a movie where Rekha’s character has a metaphorical and figurative rebirth to seek justice for the abuse the man she trusted put her through; it truly imbibes the cross-generational appeal of why fancams are such an interesting medium.

AB: Right, exactly! Bringing together Khoon Bhari Maang with “Kill Bill” absolutely blew my mind too. I never thought of it in conjunction before, but now it seems just so obvious in the best of ways.I was also really taken by the collapsing of “Kill Bill” with Rekha herself. That iconic visage, contorted in grief and rage, against the background score of “Kill Bill” inevitably made me think of Rekha’s own life story, and the rumours that surround her and Amitabh Bachchan’s affair. My reading of the fancam then also became coloured by all this paratext.

AB: Oh, 100%. I think both formally and thematically, the fancam manages to do a great job of weaving Rekha’s glamorous star-image with her notorious reputation. Just look at the way the fancam opens: the bleeding in of the red into the originally blue monochrome image of Rekha….Reading that alongside the title of the film—”Khoon Bhari Maang”—would also yield some interesting results, I feel. What does it even mean to have a maang filled with blood? Read alternatively, what does it mean to make a maang i.e., “demand” for blood?

Khoon Bhari Bra is published by Gandi Baat Books. The story revolves around a man eating bra which is wreaking havoc on families, the style of the comic is inspired from children comics and rhymes. (However we do not recommend this comic for children.) It is a mystery waiting to be unraveled, the thrill waiting to be discovered, the horror waiting to be seen and the monster is unleashed, what are you waiting for?

In this Bollywood classic, Aarti (Rekha) finds herself at the mercy of a manipulative and abusive husband, Sanjay (Kabir Bedi). Unlike other Bollywood films that focus on the internal emotional battles of domestic violence, ‘Khoon Bhari Maang’ takes a more dramatic, almost mythical approach to the subject. After Sanjay attempts to kill Aarti for her wealth, she miraculously survives and returns with a new identity to seek revenge.