The bazaar is closed!! When I watch movies like this, no matter how naive or ridiculous, I always have a lump in my throat.
Desperation... Inevitability... Painful... Wednesday... Those who condemn prostitutes at least once wondered how they came to this. When I hear on the street some honorable aunt from a good family branding all sorts of words girls who are standing on the track - I want to go to her and stare well. Because people who have successfully lived their lives do not even suspect what it is when everything has already been decided for you - parents, environment, life. I, with my impoverished childhood and marginalized surroundings, understand how life is ruining people. Especially women. A woman is always more vulnerable because she is a mother. The mother needs to feed the baby. It does not matter whether it is in poor Russia or in poor India. In fact, our countries are very different. They have traditions that are sometimes incomprehensible to the mind, we have total drunkenness and drug addiction. And they and we have a province, a village, well, just for a piggyback. And here and there children (and daughters in the first place) parents sell just for a bottle, well, or as it was in the case of the heroine of the film, Pranali, for the idea of sacrificing to rain in the village, so it seems. Mommy!!! And they gave their child to a cauldron of lustful priests. And no one condemned the parents, for the custom of "devadasi - brides of God" is still alive and well in India. They must have had respect in the village. And all It rolled. First the temple and the priests, then the Pranali was sold to some official, and then the brothel. You don’t have to say it’s her fault. What? That you were born into such a family? Is it that parents are poor people?
Even in this situation, women struggle. For my life. To my child's life. To my daughter's future. For the right to work for yourself, not for the thugs who protect prostitutes. It's admirable, you guys who can only judge??? I don't know if there was a strike of love priestesses in Mumbai or not, most likely it's fiction, but the idea is good. The fact itself is encouraging, though... Nothing will change in your life because it’s a good business. Who is going to lose their advantage... But the perseverance, the faith with which Pranali confronts a world where it is either just a consumerist or just a scornful attitude, inspires great respect.
Actress Nargis Bagheri herself is nothing special. Sometimes she was very overplayed, but in some scenes she was just amazing. This film is also interesting because it plays Sudha Chandran - this is the legendary Mayuri from the film of the same name. She is a beautiful aunt, even at this age. And I also liked Upendra Limaye, who is often filmed by Ram Gopal Varma. Good actor. Even from such a mediocre role, he managed to create an image that is memorable. And in the scene where he cried after the girl Kusum, which he took to a rich pedophile, died, I cried with him.
There were many times when tears came to my eyes. Although the film is far from a masterpiece, I repeat. A lot of contrived and twisted stuff. But it's worth watching. Even to appreciate the way you live... Everything is known by comparison.
My assessment:
10 out of 10