He lies to her and tells her they had sex, somehow thinking that telling a girl he had sex with her while she was in no position to consent, would make him look good. Later, when Simran starts to cry, he then sl#t-shames non-Indian women by telling her she is a Hindustani girl with Hindustani values; it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what he’s implying here.
The movie tries to present Raj as some sort of ideal, a man every woman wants, but what exactly is that man?
Raj keeps calling Simran dramatic when he is the one who chooses not to rebel and stages an entire drama to ‘win’ her. Irony!
Simran’s life was controlled by these men. We see her having no opinion of her own and she hardly exerts the ones she has. She is submissive throughout the movie.
Where is Simran’s choice? She literally goes from her father controlling her to him letting her go, only to send her to Raj, another man who shall now control her future. Women are the ones who put DDLJ on a pedestal, and women are the ones who must recognise that it indeed does not deserve it.
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