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Rehana Maryam Noor movie overview

Rehana Maryam Noor movie critical overview based on Simon de Beauvoir and Adrienne Rich's theory

 Bengali name:  রেহানা মরিয়ম নূর
Directed by:       Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Written by:       Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Produced by: Jeremy Chua
Starring:
Azmeri Haque Badhon
Afia Jahin Jaima
Kazi Sami Hasan
Afia Tabassum Borno
Yasir Al Haq
Saberi Alam
Release date:   7 July 2021

 

Rehana Maryam Noor, a doctor, and professor of a medical college. She is religious, ethical, and against All unethical activities that have happened in front of her eyes.

From the beginning of this movie, we see that her activity is plain and clear. Though she does not involve personal and political parties or feminist parties her activities action considers this society from a feminist perspective of view. When the film opens we see Rehana catching a student, Mimi, trying to cheat in an examination. Without a second thought, Rehana expelled the mime. Mimi’s friend Annie tries to help Mimi that’s why she goes to Dr. Arefin’s room, a senior professor of this college and Dr. seduces Annie.

Rehana wants to take action against Dr. Arefin though he could not do it a second time like this. But Anny does not agree to do this. She is concerned about her future life.

Here Annie is considered a good woman, an angel, according to the myth of patriarchal societies.

Simon de Beauvoir, a French feminist discusses the myth of society and its reality in her book "The Second Sex; chapter xi, Myth, and Reality”

In this chapter, Simone portrays socially established myths and how a woman is treated in this patriarchal society. A woman who acts against the myth does not agree to do according to male, she is a bad woman. And who agrees she is good, angel, etc. adjective has given her.

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Simon de Beauvoir also added the bad woman concept in her book. When a male person has a wife, family, or children, then he creates a relationship with a woman society does not blame this male. But males are treated as a playboy but a woman is not called playgirls. She was treated as a bad woman, characterless.

So, in this movie, Rehana is treated as a bad woman cause she protests and raises her voice against a male.

 

 In this patriarchal society, in every sector, a rebellious woman falls trapped because she raises her voice against males. Male always holds their power. When he sees his power is going to hamper raising a woman's voice, he creates a situation in which this woman is compelled to stop her voice.

When Dr. Arefin cannot stop Rehana's voice, he takes this step. Dr. Rehana becomes forced and all students go against Rehana and they are forced to resign from Professor Rehana.

Adrienne Rich and Simon de Beauvoir both write in their books that have some women in this society who accepted that males are subjects and females are Objects, the male is master and females are Other. Many women writers became too conscious of using a word that does not go against males even Virginia Wolf. These women also accepted this myth that we are mysterious. That’s why a woman cannot express herself but accept male superiority.

When Rehana goes to the principal officer of the medical, also a woman, who does not accept her complaint. But she proposes to Rehana something else. Not only the principal but also the students, Annie and Mimi, both stand against Rehana.

 

Adrienne Rich, utterances in his famous essay, "When We Dead Awaken" that women have to know the past Incidents of how males treat them. The second time they could not use this type of action. Another statement of Rich is that women never stop their anger. This anger becomes aware of themselves and helps to become conscious.

Rehana always rebellion any false activities. She also makes her child-like herself. Her child bites a male child's hand because the child disturbs her always. The school's authority said to Rehana that Rehana's baby has to say sorry in front of all students of this school otherwise Rehana's child cannot attend the annual program of the school. Rehana clearly wants to explain why her baby will be said sorry. Finally, Rehana's baby does not attend the program, how a patriarchal society bound a rebellious woman is a great example.

Psychological and mental pressure also bound a woman who raises her voice. Throughout the movie, we see that Rehana is always under mental pressure.

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