This was one Nagesh Kukunoor movie i was so desperate to watch and what a movie it turned out to be!!! A portrait in fact. I have always been a movie buff(though i dont c every x,y and z movie in the theatre!!) , y in fact almost everyone is. Each week v c atleast ten movies in different languages releasing at one of those multiplexes in your city. Some go on to become a blockbuster and some just fade away, but there are very few films that could make your heart twinge. This is one such movie that does not make one twinge with pain...but makes one think that there always is light at the end of the tunnel!!!!
Guess this is a remake of a malayalam movie but the original is supposed to have been more heart wrenching. This movie is the story of two women, a muslim women from himachal and another a traditional Rajasthani gal (the two women Gul Panag as the muslim women and Ayesha Takia as the Rajasthani gal were just too good). Their husbands share a room and work together in Saudi when the Rajasthani guy is supposed to have been killed by his room mate. He is sentenced to death as is the Saudi custom of an eye for an eye, the only way he could be pardoned a "mafinama" or a letter of pardoning from the widow. The muslim women starts in search of the widow to get the letter and on her way in the deserts she gets help from a "behrupiya" (someone like a nomad,brilliantly portrayed by Sreyas Talpade!!). The story is all about this women who fights all odds to get her husband out of jail and the widow who is literally confined to the four walls of the fortress!!!
It sounds like a very intense movie doesn't it???But you got to see this movie to know of how such an intense movie could be told with humor in it.This is such an intense film but you find the two women and the behrupiya guy dance to "Kajra re" in the middle of the desert.Seems misplaced right????But that is just not the case!!!!!!As the protaganist sets on travel from the mountains of himachal to the deserts of Rajasthan you simply feel like u are travelling with her.The other thing i liked about this film is the song called "Yeh Honsla" ,this is one song that could just pep you up when you are in the worst of moods.
The best however in the movie was the way the two women are portrayed. We have always heard that muslim women are often confined to the four walls and the Hindu women to be more outgoing...This is just not the case here. The protaganist is the muslim women !!
Every Nagesh movie has been better than the other, and this was one that definitely makes it to the top class films made in India ever.
I actually did not want this post to look like one film review.....but I really could not help it..thats how much impact the movie had on me..It simply conveyed that even in the most toughest of situations there is space for a smile and a laugh....Bottomline: There is light at the end of the tunnel
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hi som!
I remember you telling me about this film long time back,the fact tat it's a nagesh kukunoor film arises expectations!Your post has in fact increased my interest in watchin the film!nice review;-)
the post was good. but it would have been better if u had written how the film ends.. did she succeed in her attempt???
ya shiva ya...actually the two start to share a good frenship and the rajastahni gal braks barriers and starts abt with her fren
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