Does the director mean that widow should have right to re-marry? I must say that this is not the contemporary issue any longer. Moreover, the family that this movie narrates is so modern. And the paper nowadays in your country are of caste-no-bar divorcees matrimonial ads.So, where’s the tensions?
Or Fathers should love their in-laws as their own daugthers?
In this case, no one blame father for his good intention. But Is it a father’s job to find a husband for daughter? This is pointless to blame the tradition coz actually father keep repleting the same pattern of idea that women can’t be happy without marriage.
Baabul was good in term of songs and pictures. The scene that I love most is the beginning scene focusing on some angle of the wedding ceremonies. However, I notice that the woman in the movie is too sad to think about re-marriage after her husband has died.
This movie didn’t empower women at all, its discourse shows that without caring love from men, women have nothing
In term of story-telling, I think it’s still 1-2-3-4 or nothing exciting.
At first, I must confess that the first half of the movie is quite boring, as the family is too perfect. The guy gets back from America. He got the big company. The advent of Avinesh( salman) has lift up everybody except Rajat who went away to London after Mili( Rani) married to Avinash.
Again, my beloved Rani was so cute but helpless. So, the director got to make this perfection as a problem. Death of the husband is the core burden of this story. Shortly, after Avinash’s Death, father did not wait for Mili’s recovery. He manipulatively went to London to persuade him to come back and cheer mili up.
One thing that I want to comment is the binary opposition in this movie about radical hindu that Baabul says about Purani( In Thai that we have borrowed from India, we mean " ancient"), and the modern young man who got the sign of another religion in the back of his shirt. Maybe the father himself thought that being widow is not good. All women have held the Mrs. status at all time.
My big question is how women could contibute to Indian society?( Please also my review on Hum Tum on how the third hand involves in this kind of matching rituals)
What is exactly the binary oppostion of married and unmarried women?
Is it worth and worthless?
If yes, This is a" weak identity" of widow that everybody accepts?
Seemingly, everybody including viewers would firstly have sympathy towards Rani. Come and think again, if you were a widow, Would you request for that sympathy?
Compared to other movies addressing the same kind of issue, this movie fails to foreground the tension of the widow in India. Everything just follow the 50s age mainstream that women are powerless.