Originally posted by: mads
her strength yes, and I agree I m very very VERY proud of her for accepting her limitations and showing a zeal and a fight to survive ... and it was this strength only tht she needed to carry on wit her, which she DOES carry on wit her .. then why not full utilise it ?? she always always speaks up against injustice .. jus because her limbs hav lost sensation, doesnt mean tht she wil lose the will to speak against injustice? no, gunjan's character is NOT at all butchered for me, I dont think it ever was ( except for the sheeena phase ) .. m jus irritated tht the character development tht is soo prevalent in other characters isnt so prevalent in her ...
@ red : exactly why I felt tht this track had the potential .. because when I saw nupur being attacked in the promo, I felt gunjan shud now finally take a stand, because the her very strength, her very life thats his sister is in danger and she wil finally WANT to fight against injustice overcoming her fears .. if not for herself, then atleast for her love out of her sister ...
@ blue : I agree wit u completely, infact initially I had hoped tht they wud show this an all-women's battle instead of the guys .. coz dia and suhaani being city bred girls wud kno how to deal wit such ppl or atleast can help their small town cousins/friends to overcome this problem .. I stil want them to do tht...I wud rather they do it than samrat too .. because again, samrat helping wud take away the essence of the entire thing and turn it into a romantic track and this track shud b much more than jus a romantic track ..
Rinky, last week I did feel they were developing the track well, by showing Nupur's way of handling JD by using brains rather than temper, and Gunjan getting so scared for Nupur ... and I felt the way this track would go would be by showing BOTH the sisters taking the lead - Nupur using her intelligence and wit to outwit JD and gang, and Gunjan standing up and speaking out - both essentially developing the strong points of the other -
but the quick finish has totally put paid to those hopes and now I'm pretty sure we'll just see a fairly filmy dramatic end to the track, with the "bad guys" going to jail or and the main issue -
eve teasing relegated completely to the background.
And I agree with mads, what I would have liked was an all woman show - Nupur, Gunjan, Suhani, Dia leading the girls, even facing lathi charge and the police standing there helpless saying we can't attack girls, and JD fuming impotently ...
And my objection is not because Gunjan is my favourite. It's because there WAS a message to be got across - that victims of eve-teasing can also stand up and fight back, even if they are are weak or timid as Gunjan - and I think cv's have lost a golden opportunity in delivering this message. At the least, Gunjan could talk to the media and give her statement - along with some questions - if Valentines' day celebrations are against Indian culture, are eve-teasing, acid attacks and rape a part of Indian culture? Are we to passively accept them and not fight back? Is this the message being passed to the youth of today - that to celebrate friendship and love is uncultured and 'ashleel' while to accept rude and vulgar remarks from strangers, to accept that girls today are unsafe travelling to work and study, is acceptable and is a celebration of the supreme self-sacrificing nature of Indian womanhood? I would really have liked to see some punchy hard-hitting dialogues especially from Gunjan, and some strong messages being sent on such an important issue.
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