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i dont know how... but of late, am getting this feeling that they are overdoing the whole 'supergirl' concept.... agreed tht phulwa is the central character and she need to get her special place.... but why cant they just do tht by portraying her as simple normal girl n not a supergirl types?? it was ok in the beginning... but a lil girl of 7-8 shown to be finding solutions to even the most complex situation in the world - n not once or twice, many time over, is kinda unbelievable....
we saw her getting her father across the river to go to the court.... was strange, i mean, why couldn't tht man think for himself? he needed a 7 year old to show the way?? ok... may be he was shown to be stupid... she could sense the evil intentions of lakhya and his mother @ the court... and imarti could too.... thank god, atleast the mom has some senses....
then came the saving the dacoit - i thought i read about the sets of the village where the shooting was on... tht sai ballal was saying they hardly see any women out in the streets... and this lil girl was out, in the middle of the night, to save this guy and no one knew? and she kept it to herself n didnt tell any one? a girl of 7 so secretive and prudent? and wasn't she scared to go near a dacoit - cant believe a village girl who must have grown up hearing the scary stories of dacoity didnt realize what he is... ok, lets give it the name of humanity, even though the circumstances were beyond comprehension. (n not to forget, she said no to the gold he offered)
n then comes the boat issue... she jumped into the chambal river which the whole village was scared of (we see mangroo telling her in the beginning not to drink water from this river coz its cursed)... n found the boat... and when she found it hard to get the boat to the shore - there comes ppl with huge builds - with a motor giant asking for "phulwa" and ready to help... where did she have such contacts? no one bothered to ask tht??
we saw a wise mother who could see through the sugary approach of the lakhya family earlier...but then again, champas wedding and the whole sona fiasco... no one ever doubted her intention? only phulwa knew... and imarti - the wise mom - didn't bother to listen. and the 'pareeksha' for champa - dipping her hands in hot oil... this girl dared to speak, when no grown up did... in such a frightening scenario.. lets say tht was her fearlessness....
i cant imagine a whole village giving so much importance to the words of a little girl.... the moment she says "ruko" champas would be fil stops, the pandit stops, the village stops. and finally "phulwa ne champa ki shadi ramcharan se kavra di" ??? god! now this is too much!! in any other village scene, ramcharan would have been the hero... and it wouldnt be so easy to convince the villagers either... but phulwa is next to god? frankly, i'd rather see a simple normal girl and her life... troubles, we know she had to face lots, assuming its phoolan devi's story... but glorifying and projecting her as superhuman, i feel, is a bit too much.
and many scenes like ramcharan bowing his head before her, champa giving her too much importance compared to the other siblings... chunnis dad always speaking in a tone tht phulwa is next to devi ma... is tht only me whoz feelign this way here? no one else feeling weird about all these?
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