Being a woman in India is bane or boon is a tricky question to answer. Perhaps it is more of a bane than a boon. The mythical tales of women as symbol of kindness and sacrifice definitely make us proud, but the status of women in general is still bleak. Discourses on women's empowerment are doing good rounds in public space, in addition to government's endeavour to improve socio-economic status of women. However remote reality still speaks otherwise. This cruel fact was again depicted recently by Shashank Khaitan in his much-awaited venture 'Dhadak', although less because of his directorial dexterity, but because of the debutant daughter of Bollywood diva Sridevi.
The climax of the movie left everyone dumb speaking this dark side of reality aloud. The way the brother of Parthvi (Jahnvi Kapoor) re-entered her life with praternal show-off of love (gifts from her father) for Parthvi, her husband Madhu and their young one Aditya I felt something was amiss. As elated Parthvi comes back with the packet of sweets for her brother and his accomplices the lifeless bodies of Madhu and Aditya fall with a thud in front of her. Such a cruelty to protect shallow honour of the family of a higher caste can only happen in India. Madhu hails from a lower caste while Parthvi was the daughter of local higher caste leader. This is not just a movie, but the mirror of Indian society wherein such heinous crimes keep happening, many a times without media glare. Some stories get reported, some others are hushed up.
The issue of honour--killing was also highlighted in a 2015 film called NH 10, in Anushka Sharma and Neil Bhoopalam played the protagonist. Both Dhadakne and NH 10 left me silently engaged for quite sometime. Fortunately our tribal societies are free from such social issues on the question of social status, leaving aside the individual contestation.
The climax of the movie left everyone dumb speaking this dark side of reality aloud. The way the brother of Parthvi (Jahnvi Kapoor) re-entered her life with praternal show-off of love (gifts from her father) for Parthvi, her husband Madhu and their young one Aditya I felt something was amiss. As elated Parthvi comes back with the packet of sweets for her brother and his accomplices the lifeless bodies of Madhu and Aditya fall with a thud in front of her. Such a cruelty to protect shallow honour of the family of a higher caste can only happen in India. Madhu hails from a lower caste while Parthvi was the daughter of local higher caste leader. This is not just a movie, but the mirror of Indian society wherein such heinous crimes keep happening, many a times without media glare. Some stories get reported, some others are hushed up.
The issue of honour--killing was also highlighted in a 2015 film called NH 10, in Anushka Sharma and Neil Bhoopalam played the protagonist. Both Dhadakne and NH 10 left me silently engaged for quite sometime. Fortunately our tribal societies are free from such social issues on the question of social status, leaving aside the individual contestation.
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