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This dialogue from the movie Shaadisthan says a lot, "Women like us fight so that women like you don't have to fight in their own world."
This dialogue from the movie Shaadisthan says a lot, “Women like us fight so that women like you don’t have to fight in their own world.”
Translated from the original in Hindi.
Director Raj Choudhary along with Kirti Kulhari, KK Menon, and Nivdita Bhattacharya narrates a story titled ‘Shaadisthan’ on the OTT platform Disney Plus Hotstar.
Half of our population will be able to relate to the pain hidden in the depths of the story in which the director has very successfully attempted to mix the clash of conservative, feudal, patriarchal thinking, with modern thinking. If there is anything missing in the film, then it is that not all the actors are able to bring out the seriousness and depth of the subject to their acting, though Kirti Kulhari has certainly succeeded to a large extent.
An ordinary family stuck in their routine rut, Sanjay Sharma (Rajan Modi), his wife Kamla Sharma (Nivedita Bhattacharya) and daughter Arshi Sharma (Megha Shankar) are forced to fly from Mumbai to Ajmer with with a band of musicians because they miss their flight. Singers in this band are Sasha (Kirti Kulhari), Apoorva Dogra (Freddie), Jimmy (Shanpen Khimsar) and Imad (Ajay Jayanti).
A conservative family in which Arshi, the 18 year old daughter is upset as she’s getting married against her will, and a modern minded bandaas band clash with each other over their thoughts on the journey. So much happens on this journey that towards the end the Sharma husband and wife completely change their minds about the whole thing.
What really happens? How does a conservative family change its thinking? Does Arshi finally get married against her wish, or does something else happen? For all these answers, you have to watch the movie.
Sasha (Kirti Kulhari) is a modern, self-reliant woman living a life of her own choice. On one hand, while she is portrayed as a strong, outspoken woman, there is also the sensitive side seen in her feelings while praying at the tomb of Ajmer Sharif.
Kamala Sharma (Nivedita Bhattacharya) is an ordinary woman who has always lived within the narrow, conservative life that is her lot. She wishes to leave everything and go somewhere for a while, but it is nearly impossible for her. As she says, “it is a little difficult to get out of the maze of our society.”
Arshi Sharma (Megha Shankar) is a young girl who wants to live her life her way, but does not have the confidence to actually say and do it. She is scared of doing anything where she or her mother may have to bear the brunt of her actions.
Some hard dialogues: “Women are always suppressed. Suppressed as soon as you are born. Suppress a girl as soon as she is married. Suppressed as soon as you become a mother. Suppressed so much that you do not think about yourself even if you want to.”
And almost at the end of the story: “Women like us fight so that women like you don’t have to fight in their own world.”
All three women are representative of a million women around us.
Watch the movie Shaadisthan for a peek into how they go from where they stand at the beginning of the story to where they end up towards the end. Truly a journey.
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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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