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Disney Princesses - Saree Edit

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My recreation and refashioning of the Disney princesses is an attempt at not only changing the way we think about their appearance but perhaps it goes a bit deeper. So bear with me while I try and explain my outlook towards it. If we try to look at every fairytale we have grown up reading/watching with a critical eye, we would come across some glaring inefficacies. The reason I have taken up Disney Princesses and tried to portray them in a newer light is perhaps to jerk the viewers out of their complacency and unquestioning acceptance of these seemingly innocent tales where apparently the only binary which exists is good and evil. Snow White Every princess, in this case, Snow White, is the central figure of her story, and from an apparent perspective, all these tales are women-centric. But do they really serve as mouth-pieces for women or do they make these women speak the language of men in an out-and-out patriarchic setup? Grimm's narrative of Snow White not only pitches one woma...