half baked but interesting

For my project, I want to focus on how popular post-colonial films/poetry can be thought of in terms of the aesthetics of decolonization. I still have to think about the list of films I want to specifically focus on but for now I am thinking of “rang de basanti” and how I can make an argument on de colonial aesthetics using that film and also relate it to ideas we have been discussing throughout the course of laying claim to the past and in this case a very revolutionary past and tracing it very much within the present. For the poetry, again I need to think of the list that I want to finally work with but for now to convey the idea, I was thinking of trying to understand Amrita Pritam’s poem “aj akha waris shah nu” and Faiz’s “hum k thehre ajnabi” within the aesthetic of decolonization with the foremost question being that of home and where is that home? Also, I want to see how when these poems adapt the musical form, can there be a difference in terms of the aesthetic, that will be interesting to look at.  I don’t really want my project to take a paper form, I think I will make a blog, or an Instagram account dedicated to investigating this aesthetic further. To define what decolonization means and what framework I should use when analyzing these artistic expressions, I want to return to the texts we have been studying in class and explore further texts as well like Biko’s “I write what I like” to have well founded theoretical background. The idea is still half baked but I think it will be interesting to see how some these artistic expressions can resonate with the question of these aesthetics.