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The incidences in the movie were not what exactly you call progressive either. The aunt discourages the fair skinned niece and looks down on her own daughter who happens to be brown.Makes comments which would give push to the already downtrodden society deeper into the parochial way of judging by color. Is that what you would call progressive? And not once in the movie does the writer seem to knock sense into the viewers and make the aunt repent and be ashamed of her acts.Poonam is turned into an extremely annoying demure woman who wouldn't want to look up at her engaged partner, believes in keeping her head bowed before the elders. Like gone are the days where women would sacrifice for their family constantly, keep low with their ambitions, would put up with the ungrateful and hateful remarks of the family just to see the family remain under the same roof. Like for just once Poonam raises her voice to let her aunt know her mistakes. And don't give me the shit the movie is set in so and so village, cos it wasn't. LOL I can't believe people still want to live in the out dated stuff of the 80's practising color preaching and bounded by family traditions. What is more surprising is that they point out to others to that they are not capable of understanding the nature of arranged marriages.And Then they go around advocating women rights, preaching how women are equal to men yet would want to see this kind of repulsive stuff.The only thing that didn't cut down to being regressive is the last part where the guy accepts her.
Well dats ur way to look at the things. I respect ur point of view. India is divided in 2 parts right now. One which growing developing fast really fast and the other part is the one who has families like the one shown in Vivah. I dont see any harm if a girl is shy infront of her husband to be and I dont see anything wrong if a girl out of respect is not able to say anything to her elders. There are still girls like poonam in the east. Talking about the fairness, the film dint encouraged it, it just showed how ppl are insecure regarding their colour in India. And they are dats y u see educated, modern public figures like Shahrukh khan and Virat Kohli promoting Fairness
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