Lajja - No shame, no shame.[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Lajja Forum ] Posted by nelly on September 22, 2001 at 23:34:49:
Lajja, was a good movie, with MANY problems. As far as the acting goes, it is great. The rest was terrible - well almost. The music was great, "badi mushkil" was probably one of the best. The storyline, however seemed to fall way to much. For example: the stereotype that Americans cheat on their spouses with "lovers". That because of a car accident, one can become infertile - VERY SLIM chance of this ever happening.The doctor not even sympathizing or giving Manisha any idea what to do, after she learns about her husband, wanting her child and doesn't say good bye, or good luck. Then comes Mahima who couldn't cry for anything, and is loud as ever. That whole "yes daddy" was just plain dumb, and wrong. Then comes Madhuri, who is pregnent, and for just changing around an ancient religious text (good scene though), and people says "she looks like a good welcome mat, lets step all over her!". Rekha's story was somewhat good, but the whole Ajay Devgan, and killing people with tin foil, was just ridiculous. And the whole cutting off limbs, had some meaning, but not much of one. And that LONG LONG speech at the end, was just another of the MANY "empowering" speeches which really had no relevence to anything until the end, where she actually said "lajja". The end was the most overly done I have ever seen. The whole "of the more than 18 000 streets, and 200 000 taxis in New York, mine met with yours, I came out in the middle of the traffic hour, and ended up marrying the same girl you helped, and you are having a show of the same girl that I never met" says anil kapoor. Can we EVER get a SERIOUS Indian Feminist film, without all of that "comedy" crap in between, or the joint together ending? Seriously. Although of its many MANY flaws, the locales are great,the story is somewhat above average, and if taken the right way, the movie might change India..or more likely not.
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