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When I started watching Taapsee Pannu's Game Over, I wasn't prepared for the life lessons it would teach me. Here's what I learnt from it!
When I started watching Taapsee Pannu’s Game Over, I wasn’t prepared for the life lessons it would teach me. Here’s what I learnt from it!
There are very few good horror films and amongst them, recently I watched Game Over. Now, what about it? When in every typical horror film, there is a ghost that either haunts the house or people or village. However, in these kinds of films, it is left to the audience to decide if it was the ghost or the past that haunts the protagonist.
Another important aspect is when many times to project the female issues, there has to be a women-centric movie that talks about it. But it was quite astonishing how a horror film could also be a women-centric movie.
Firstly, in Game Over, watching Swapna (Taapsee Pannu), one can understand the traumas undergone by a rape survivor. It is very easy for people around to say, “You shouldn’t have gone out the other night.”
Well, she did and it happened. What next? The rapist is sent to jail. So, is it all okay now? Yeah, it should be because we have the next Nirabhaya case to look after. What about the rape victim? Is she really a rape victim or survivor?
Game Over tells us why she is a survivor rather than a victim. Swapna’s parents blame her for going out the other night and her mom says she is being raped because she had a tattoo. There is no way of getting back to the past and change, is there? Yet there is one thing that Amudha’s mom tells not only Swapna but to all of us, “We all have two lives the second one starts when we realise we only have one.”And then the game begins.
Last one hour of the film was she really fighting against the psychopath killers or herself getting over her traumatic past? This is left to us to decide if there was a ghost in her that helped her to fight against the killers or if it was Swapna’s vision of getting over the past.
However it is perceived to be, we see Swapna is made weakest and helpless. And finally, she rises as the strongest unbeatable person, and then the game is over, and there comes the New Year.
Picture credits: Still from movie Game Over
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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