Originally posted by: incandescent
Elitist much?
Paro is from a village in India. Forget education, there are still many villages in India where there is no electricity. She is from one such village where people aren't very educated and the simple, gullible villagers were oppressed and manipulated by their leader.
This is the world we live in, where there are millions of underprivileged people. Where many of us are brought up in the lap of luxury...millions others are starving and dying from hunger every day. There are millions of people who cannot read and write. This is reality.
So yes, Paro is just another village girl, who only studied till fifth grade because she didn't have all the privileges like we did. She speaks with a dialect and so do thousands of other people. The whole world doesn't speak in one language. It is not a 'kaamwali bai' accent but rather an accent with which hundreds of Rajastani people converse in, and if a kaamwali bai happens to be from that region, she would have this accent.
So what should such a village girl do? Not fall in love? What should the makers do? Only depict polished, urban women on screen because the stories of uneducated women aren't worth telling?
Perhaps show revolving around people from higher social strata would be more palatable to you since you are only comfortable with one side of reality.
I work with women and children in the slums of Mumbai ... many women are not much better off than Paro in terms of education and the kind of choices they have in their lives. Yet the way they handle their lives, and the strength they show in facing their day to day struggles leaves me admiring them every single day.
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