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The husband
(Jackie Shroff) would party, get drunk, flirt around other
women and expect his wife (Manisha Koirala) to except it.
She leaves him to return to her parents in India.
He has
an accident and is told he will never be able to have a child,
but then discovers his wife is pregnant and will have an heir.
His father wants the child and plots to kill the mother after.
He pleaded that he wants her back but, she discovers her life
is at risk she escapes. Not even her parents would support
as she belongs to another family.
On her journey she meets various groups of people of problems
off their own. She sees that women in India are either killed
at birth, have difficult in getting married unless the davory
is paid, accused of being unfaithful, raped and killed.
She learns that she has to make a stand to her husband. At
one stage off the film she is in confrontation with her husband
who will be killed by a criminal because he is dishonest,
but she saves his life by pleading for her 'suhhga' the criminal
states women are their own victims sometimes.
The husband
then realises that he has been saved by the every women who
he had come to kill after his child is born.
It is all about women's Lib. I see myself as being
a westernised woman with great traditional values. I admired
the main actress for her beliefs because she is the person
I would like to be.
The film showed how a male dominated country treats women.
The women are second class. They are non-existent. Women are
to cook, clean, have children (sons) and for their pleasure.
It does not matter if a women is raped abused or killed because,
it would have been said they deserved it.
As we know it is these men who are changing in the way they
think about women. More and more women defend themselves.
They are fighting for their right and respect.
This film
is new and from it we can understand that women in some places
of India are still undergoing this torture. In the film the
main actress opens the eye for women. It is important to educate
these women and make them realise that they do not have to
put up with torturous behaviour from men.
In the film women are referred to as 'Goddesses' therefore
if men abuse women then they have abused a GOD. The film also
proves that what comes around goes around meaning what evil
you do you will have to pay the consequences.
This film shows the barbaric
acts of men towards a women. It touched my heart at the end
of the film.
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