WOW, what a disaster and a
confusing movie – I guess they wanted to make a docudrama, somewhere midway
while writing the idea of a commercial movie stuck with the makers and they end
up hiring two of the legendry actresses opposite each other to make a proper
commercial masala and end up making this hotch potch which makes no sense at
all. I mean so much is happening in one village that too such huge contrasting
things is really amazing but I guess I needed to take it all with a pinch of
salt as they claim “It’s a work of fiction and has got nothing to do with the
life of Sampat Pal Devi” whose actual life people thought it was based on. Of
course and I am dead sure that her life wouldn’t be half as interesting as
Rajjo Devi’s (Madhuri Dixit) that a movie maker will pay any heed to make it
into a movie. In this movie on one hand we have females getting beaten up /
raped / tortured and left uneducated and right on the other hand we have
females from the same village smoking, drinking and having premarital sex too.
No background whatsoever on Rajjo Devi is given to audience, as why she is what
she is? As well as no background on Sumitra too – I am still confused what was
her title in the movie? What kind of a political figure she was – who was so
bothered about a handful of females from one village standing up against the
society (Read village) and to top it all – the election results too were
dependent on one village. Fortunately the only one thing which works in the favor
of the movie is the supremely written character and equally well acted Sumitra
Devi (by ravishing Juhi Chawla), she gets to dome some amazing expressions and
fantastic lines, totally loved it. Tannishtha Chatterjee gets to do another
thankless character which will be soon forgotten just like her other Bollywood
movies, along with two other actresses, Divya Jagdale and Priyanka Bose who do
actually make a mark in the movie. I will give it a below average 2/5, one for
the idea and concept and other one definitely for Juhi Chawla’s superb
performance which kept me watching the whole 2 hours and a little longer movie
which otherwise I wouldn’t have finished anyways. I am now looking forward to
the documentary of the same name and hope that’s way better than this one.
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