1. The title is the one I hated the most - it's regressive, the word "daag" seems straight out of a medieval novel, and I feel really angry about it, and that's why it doesn't figure anywhere on this blog post.2. Jaya is definitely trying to usurp Nirupa Roy from the not-so-desirable position of whining mom, helpless wife and sacrificing mother. She seems almost demented in some scenes.
3. Give us a minute dose of reality, and we the viewers will willingly take it. But oops...we're talking about Yash Raj movies here. The mansion of a house (which of course is justified as a white elephant); the late night sewing sessions of the aforementioned self-sacrificing mom in darkness, the Catlic sidekicks with bad Hindi/English, cliché after cliché of ghise-peete dialogues - here's one - "I'm marrying you because you're the only (whore) who knows her Hanuman chalisa"!! What! - where did this come from? As far as Suketu's novel goes, most of the sex workers come from very poor families, and are very god-fearing.
4. One last silver lining - I'm sure the classical purists hate her for selling out to mass media, but I quite liked the Shubha Mudgal's remixed version of the title track.
7 comments:
What were you thinking when you bought tickets for this movie in the first place? :-)
Its got "MELODRAMA" written all over it...!
It got rave reviews on Ayesha's blog :)...and no, thankfully, I did not pay a dime to watch it.
I have not even heard of this movie.
Maybe I should be thankful. :)
I think Anupama Verma (if I am guessing it right) looks good in the poster you linked.
I have to go catch up with all the book reviews now.
You have been prolific my friend.
Err, that's not Anupama Verma. Don't tell me you confused Rani with her! I can't even imagine how you - "the Bollywood queen of gossip and trivia" are not keeping up with the stuff that comes out of B'bay nowadays. I do have a recommendation though - Chakde India...it's like Jo Jeeta with field hockey :)
Hahaha, I looked at the poster again. And Rani Mukherji does not look like anupama verma at all !! (If Anupama Verma is the same woman I think she is.)
That's Rani? Yikes. If that is true, maybe your other gossip about her is true too.
I wish I could keep track of Bollywood gossip but sadly life decides o.w. Plus I think there are insane number of movies coming out aaj kal and everyone is an actor. Maybe I should quit my PhD and join the film industry too. :)
hahaha... completely massacred!! :D
This feels like the Uma i know.. hehe...
:)
I still like the larger-than-life movie! :) whoever said it was going to be reality.. and just for facts - college girls are earning huge bucks working as escorts!
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