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Wait a minute. The title is a tad baffling. We are talking of a Bangla flick, not Hindi or Urdu one as the name suggests.
This is a film which you are unlikely to forget in a hurry. For it is a reflection of the day to day lives of ordinary folks. Guldasta is out and out a women-centric film, interpolating lives of three lead female characters. Srirupa, Renu and Dolly constitute the trio whose journey of life is depicted in this gripping movie The realities of life faced by these three women, each of whom wallow in their own private hell, whose lives are gripped by overpowering emotions,is bound to touch your soul.
The lead character of the film is a low profile saleswoman who goes by the name of Dolly Bagree (Swastika Mukherjee). It is her cheerful demeanour, gift of gab plus cordial interactions with the other two ladies that forms the crux of this movie. Srirupa(Arpita Chatterjee) is a house-wife who lacks confidence to combat her spouse with the truth regarding her health issues. Instead she remains cold and meekly submits to her partner while having sex. Her disguntled husband (Ishan Mazumdar) ets attracted to a younger colleague (Anuradha Mukherjee). The third woman Renu (Debjani Chatterjee) has stable relation with her husband (AbhijitGuha) who is posted in another town but visits pretty often. But Renu’s bête noir is her nagging mother-in-law. As if this was not enough her son is a drug addict. He suffers from mood swings and is highly incommunicative.
Now it is against this troubled backdrop that Dolly Bagri enters their lives, peddling cosmetics and beauty aids et al. sell products of her company. In course of time, with utmost symapathy and concern, she solves the problems of both Srirupa and Renu inspiring both to pick up the threads of life once again. Dolly instills confidence in Srirupa who summons courage to face her husband. Moreover she helps Srirupa to start dancing again. When Renu becomes critically ill because of her son’s waywardness, it is Dolly who helps the youth to return to the mainstream.
Sadly enough, beneath Dolly’s vivacious nature joie-de-vivre and bonhomie there is hidden a sordid tale. All along Dolly had been projecting harmonious, positive picture of her domestic life. The grim reality surfaces when all of a sudden Dolly goes missing and the two women go looking for her. The duo discover to their horror that her husband is bed ridden and her daughter-in-law perpetually abuses her. Morever the family resides a slum amidst filth and squalor.
And yet it is heartening to note that despite her misery Dolly adopts a positive attitude to life and inspires people. As the movie draws to a close we see how on the 25th of December Dolly arrives at Srirupa’s home with a bouquet of flowers to wish her on her birthday!
Believe it or not this is a page torn from the book of our daily lives . I have a sister in law by the name of Mallika while viewing the flick onscreen, I was bemused to discover that Dolly was her splitting image Lying glibly ,with elan a hyperactive imaginations she smoothly worms her way into the hearts of her clients. Yes she heads the marketing division of a high profile private company!!
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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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