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Review: Godh Bharai
Buzz up!
Godh Bharai is a show from the makers of Saat Phere and Balika Vadhu.
Here also they are pointing out a social issue like female impotency but the show is as regressive and irritating as it can get, especially when seemingly educated – looking actors mouth lines like Main tumhari mardangi par ungli uthne nahin doongi, usse accha main baanjh kehlaana pasand karoongi….
It's about Aastha, who moves around in all those glittery saris, straightened hair and is always smiling unnecessarily without a reason to show that she is a happy and a good wife. She is a perfect bahu, who serves chai to sasur ji and who wants to keep everyone happy but unfortunately she is not able to conceive and give a child to the family. Her husband (Shakti Anand) is the dutiful son who wakes up early morning to do puja with his father while his elder brother prefers to sleep till late and the latter's wife is the proverbial black sheep in the family. She can't make decent tea, makes kanda poha on fasting days so incurs the wrath of the patriarch too often. And yes, for some strange reason she speaks incorrect English; 'I don't knows what happenings' types (remember Rani Mukerji's Ek slaps doongi in Saawariya?). We guess that is the makers' idea of putting comic relief in the otherwise dull show.
The family interestingly doesn't really torture Aastha for being childless, yet she puts a long face looking at the picture of baby Krishna and makes a face like she has nothing in her life, it's so empty and it's the same sad face always. We wonder why they can't adopt a child instead. The actors try hard to put life into the show, especially Shakti Anand as Shivam and Pallavi Subhash as Aastha (though they make a nice couple) but in vain.
No point in talking more about this show. You have seen it all before.
Rating: * 1/2
http://www.indya.com/news/newsdetails.aspx?p=Review-Godh-Bharai&xfile=2010/April/News_20100408_40
Buzz up!
Godh Bharai is a show from the makers of Saat Phere and Balika Vadhu.
It's about Aastha, who moves around in all those glittery saris, straightened hair and is always smiling unnecessarily without a reason to show that she is a happy and a good wife. She is a perfect bahu, who serves chai to sasur ji and who wants to keep everyone happy but unfortunately she is not able to conceive and give a child to the family. Her husband (Shakti Anand) is the dutiful son who wakes up early morning to do puja with his father while his elder brother prefers to sleep till late and the latter's wife is the proverbial black sheep in the family. She can't make decent tea, makes kanda poha on fasting days so incurs the wrath of the patriarch too often. And yes, for some strange reason she speaks incorrect English; 'I don't knows what happenings' types (remember Rani Mukerji's Ek slaps doongi in Saawariya?). We guess that is the makers' idea of putting comic relief in the otherwise dull show.
The family interestingly doesn't really torture Aastha for being childless, yet she puts a long face looking at the picture of baby Krishna and makes a face like she has nothing in her life, it's so empty and it's the same sad face always. We wonder why they can't adopt a child instead. The actors try hard to put life into the show, especially Shakti Anand as Shivam and Pallavi Subhash as Aastha (though they make a nice couple) but in vain.
No point in talking more about this show. You have seen it all before.
Rating: * 1/2
http://www.indya.com/news/newsdetails.aspx?p=Review-Godh-Bharai&xfile=2010/April/News_20100408_40
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