Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and in its 2015 film adaptation Arshinagar by Aparna Sen is marginalized like a subaltern, though the ways of her marginalization are different. She is never allowed to raise her voice in the patriarchal society. Subalternity in Shakespeare's Juliet appears intense but Aparna Sen's Julie (counterpart of Juliet) becomes doubly subaltern because of her gender as well as her religion. Patriarchal hegemony surrounds both Shakespeare's Juliet and Aparna Sen's Julie, but religious orthodoxy and patriarchal hegemony work together to make Sen's Julie subaltern. This paper traces the ways in which Juliet or Julie is made subaltern. It also shows how Juliet and Julie are denied freedom of speech in the original text and in its adaptation.