If there's a movie to dislike from start to finish, and an audience I'd have happily seen murdered, it would be this. In an almost all-male theatre of hooting, whistling local freaks, I watched the bollywood justification of our primitive, barbaric arranged marriage system. Fine, they made it for the 'masses', but this is a gold-class, fatcat 'masses' in theatres these days.Here's a girl who's been callously forced to marry a perfect stranger on the day the love of her life dies. A typical arranged marriage of convenience results - such everyday people that they didn't even need two bollywood stars to make it into a movie.
On top of it all, this educated girl is so lacking in self-esteem she apologizes for being in mourning and proceeds to wash, clean and care for his house while the babu comes home only to eat at night.
When she meets a guy who's willing to dress up as well as she does and meet her halfway in dancing, riding, etc. she chooses him over the self-centered unchanging hubby. But in a [duh] radical decision she decides to keep the moron-hubby over the more jazzed up version. [The audience went crazy with joy at this dutiful daughter preference.;]
What makes me angrier is that so many women (who have probably had an arranged marriage) thought it was a terrific movie too - not just those guys. I guess arranged marriages are here to stay for a few centuries yet.;s
1 comment:
i rarely go for movies and my comments on that is practically nill with the desi movies.
This is about the arranged marriages,things will change much quicker than u think(centuries u said)
The guys agree to the arranged marriage as they dont have the guts to find a gal and the girls dont have the guts to agreee to the one they like and found.
Things are noticably changing in the villages,some do marry outside for being rebellious
generally,others because they know what they want and appreciate.
The booing and whistling in the theatres are nothing where u are, for that u must come to one of the talkies where movies cost 10 rupees and less.
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