PLASTIC MONEY LITERATURE: JAMTARA—SABKA NUMBER AYEGA DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF HOMO ECONOMICUS AND HOMO POLITICUS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53555/eijhss.v10i3.208Keywords:
Plastic Money, Netflix, Jamtara, Homo Economicus, Homo PoliticusAbstract
Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega is an Indian crime drama web series that shares many similarities with the plastic
money of globalization. This article investigates the dynamics and dramatization of what the research scholar mentions
as plastic money literature using plastic money as a theory machine. It argues a case for plastic money in India with its
properties like phishing racket—big enough to grab their small town the title of being the cyber-crime capital of India in
Netflix's Jamtara. However, a comparison proves very fruitful since plastic money literature and the web
series Jamtara investigate the extent to which poverty, frustration, hopelessness, and humiliation play a role in the
complicated factors that transform ordinary people into maverick homo economicus characters and getting associated
with homo politicus characters. Plastic money transactions represent a spatial consciousness in which plastic money
seeps into cybercrime, corruption, and revenge; this does not discriminate between its point of origin and eventual
destination, race, caste-color discrimination, and the misuse of political power for corruption and independent benefits.
On the contrary, Jamtara goes so far as to explain crime and corruption in Jharkhand concerning the transgressions
routinely performed by homo economicus and homo politicus as they rise to the top of the phishing racket, startling the
country in the instance of the plastic money scandal. Thus, plastic money stimulates relationships with a twist that
speaks of society's advantages and disadvantages. In a globalized society, is plastic money rewriting the literature?
Plastic money literature becomes our new dramatization of generating cashless living and rethinking globalized
literature in India. Jamtara is a web serial that encourages comparison because human behavior remains an extended
identity around the globe since there is no employment in Jharkhand, prompting the youth to engage in the criminal
domain of cybercrime.
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