Originally posted by: WormikaGrubby
Nobody is judging those women from history who ended up taking that awful decision. It's Sanjay Bhansali and other pride mongers who are judged for glorifying engineered suicides.
Chittorgarh was under military seife for months . That means scarcity for food , distuption of trade and logistics , disruption of communication, lack of manpower and so on. We see nothing of those hardships in the movie , of what women went through ,how they dealt with it , how they hoped to survive it. Instead the movie is about Khiljis wild goose chase for Padmavati's unattainable vagina. In the climax scene when the guard comes in and says " Rani Sa Shahid down " Deepika acts like her butt is trying to bite her from within. They she launches into a speech about honour. She says " Jo hamare badan ke bhooke hain woh humhe kabhi nahi haasil karenge. Hum jalke raakh kyun na ho jaaye , rajputon ka abhimaan amar rahega ". Not one woman says " I have kids, I cannot kill them ". In the next scene which is disgusting , you see all these women in sychronised walking shots ,including a oregnant woman' , all walking smack dab into the fire with not even the little girl hesitating. You see very few children because they arent pretty enough for the aesthetics. of Sanjay's fetish. There's no Bhuvan Chaudhary this time but the doors are banged shut. Khilji falls on it just like Paro and nope tough luck ,he ain't getting any. The voiceover says it was his biggest haar. FFS ! How sick do people have to be to say they get " goosebumps " watching it ,not out of fear or disgust or pity , but pride. And to think Padmavati was most likely imagined and never even existed.
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