![]() First half ends with the girl running away minutes before her marriage but not without feeling for the groom. ![]() Both fathers fighting for there honor and the best for their children. Another mother breaking them for her daughter. Then there is reality interspersed, about dowry-bargaining and the modicum of its acceptance, a sister trying to help a mother keeping traditions- even if wrong. There is romance, honest and of an innocent kind. The guy and gal are both apprehensive of the prospects but then they get along emphatically. ![]() They just were, and did justice to there characters. It didn't seem as if any of them were after justifying any ideology or dogma or preconceived notion, they were just guided by the demands of the situation. While choosing to do the former Ratna Sinha leaves a simple message (I am not sure if she meant to): don't fight with these problems, transcend them! All the characters have looked beyond a particular stereotype, scores a 100% there. These are the problems a director faces and yet has to choose whether to entertain the viewers or sermonize them. ![]() This movie deals with dowry, women emancipation, arrange marriages and patriarchy. Movies address social problems and offer solutions to them, at times oversimplified ones and these have to be dealt with in a span of 100-150 mins. ![]()
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