Lagaa Chunri Mein Daag

What are your thoughts on this movie?

It was a bold one for its time but was it convincing?

Also did you like the ending? It shows how a prostitute can also choose to live a normal life..but i remember many people not connecting with it at all back in 2007 and found it living in a lala land far fetched from reality.

Rani and konkona was my favorite in the movie and looked like sisters. I remember when abhi and Rani was shooting for this movie, Aish was on the set, I guess watching Rani abhi lol they should work together because Rani who dated abhi years ago was his best pairing.

It's a glitzy copy of Mumtaz's Aaina which is a lot more bold -in terms of the heroine's behaviour.

Mumtaz asks her mother why she chose to have a large family when they couldn't support them. One of her lovers slaps her when he realises that she was once a good girl from a Brahmin family. She slaps him back asking him why a so-called nice Brahmin boy like him was soliciting her services. Later when she realises that he was going to be the groom for her sister and wants to back out from the suhag raat, she confronts him and tells him to do his duty now that he's married. At one point the man she loved when she was young (Rajesh Khanna) lands up at her house accidentally seeking her services. She's simply unapologestic as she points out that he was not there when she needed him.

Rani never blames her mother Jaya for her plight. Rather than confront her family, she confronts her cousins -albeit the society. Mumtaz's mother never told her to be a prostitute. She's in fact the only one from her family supporting Mumtaz when her blood-sucking family kicks her out.

Unrealistic and filmy, but it had nice songs.

A college dropout from Varanasi goes to Mumbai thinking she’ll find a job only to be forced into sleeping with a guy for money by her own panicky mother no less (dad is in the hospital and family needs money for his treatment), only to then get fleeced by the guy. And in full filmy style slaps him across the face. What did that accomplish? He still didn’t pay 🙄 And then instead of going back to her small town she decides to become a full time escort so her family can live in luxury. In one scene she actually tells her dad on the phone to get marble stones for their courtyard. It tried to get preachy by saying women do it out of desperation, which is very true sometimes. But getting marble stones for your courtyard is no longer a desperate situation.

The romance angle was again filmy with contrived plot points. She meets Abhishek on a business trip flight to Europe, hangs out with him and falls in love, but leaves him because of her job. Only or him to turn up at her sister’s wedding because he’s the groom’s brother. Proposes and tells her he always knew she was an escort because he’s familiar with the owner of the company she was traveling with. However he also knew she was a good person because she started praying during turbulence on the flight.

Halfway through the movie her cousin finds out and blackmails her. But at the end during the wedding when he tries to expose her he backs off because? Abhishek and Kunal Kapoor or too tall? I never understood how he went from blackmailing to suddenly backing out.

I liked it. Both Rani and Konkona were excellent. The ending is a bit too filmy though.