[noflylist]

Shyam Benegal masterpiece!


Deals with Rural issues, unemployment, poverty, (dirty) politics, (il)literacy, social issues like child marriage and widow remarriage issues, grey side of every human relationship, false superstitions, women's position in society, unpunished crimes commited by rich and powerful, selling of organs, naxal issues, issue of landed and landless peasants and conflict with land developement companies...

... and many more issues I have not detected yet. All this presented with humor!


and ultimately triumph of "democracy" and that typical Indian spirit!

Impressive!

[noflylist]

women's lib character, Hijra running for office, petty financial corruption, ex servicemen issues...


family abandonement

Edited by retiredflylist, 26 October 2009 - 03:40 AM.

[cyberhippie]

Cheers nolfylist I'll look out for it.

[noflylist]

I can not stop thinking of the movie!


animal rights and government policy, issue of elderly abandonement (Kumbhmela!), quake medicine and more...

But ultimately, what I liked is redemption is possible!

[dzibead]

It sounds great.

[iwanttogoback]

now that the end of my degree is in sight (8 days), i'm starting a list of things to do, i think that watchingindian movies will be one of them.

thanks for the tip rfl.

[cyberhippie]

Finally IWTGB, India trip on the horizon???????

[Hyderabadi]

retiredflylist, on Oct 25 2009, 10:23 PM, said:

I can not stop thinking of the movie!

Hoping to see it this weekend, from the bits I've seen, it does look great. Thanks for the recommendation RFL bhai, I would have missed it.

[iwanttogoback]

cyberhippie, on Oct 26 2009, 06:34 PM, said:

Finally IWTGB, India trip on the horizon???????

first some money, then some plans!

it's only been nine years....

[priya]

It sounds as though you and I are in the same boat, iwtgb.  Mine's also nine, going on 10

[iwanttogoback]

i actually meant that it's been nine years since i started studying architecture.

[priya]

Ooopsey!

You're almost there though

[Hyderabadi]

retiredflylist, on Oct 24 2009, 10:06 PM, said:

Deals with Rural issues, unemployment, poverty, (dirty) politics, (il)literacy, social issues like child marriage and widow remarriage issues, grey side of every human relationship, false superstitions, women's position in society, unpunished crimes commited by rich and powerful, selling of organs, naxal issues, issue of landed and landless peasants and conflict with land developement companies...

... and many more issues I have not detected yet. All this presented with humor!

Thanks for the recommendation again, watched it last night and though a bit 'dragging' at times, a great movie.

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Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his humble occupation, Mahadev has the potential to impact numerous lives. The movie is a satirical, but warm-hearted portrait of life in rural India.

Among Mahadev's customers are:

    * Mahadev's childhood crush Kamla (Amrita Rao) is desperate for communication from her husband Bansi Ram (Kunal Kapoor), who works as a laborer at a dockyard in Mumbai. In the letters to her husband, a jealous Mahadev writes the opposite of the loving messages Kamla wants to convey, while faking what her husband has written to her.
    * A harried mother (Ila Arun) who wants to get her manglik daughter, Vindhya (Divya Dutta) married.
    * A landlord whose sister-in-law is a candidate for the village Sarpanch, and who wants all her political rivals eliminated from the race.
    * A eunuch Munni who is contesting the elections for the village Sarpanch but fears the threats from the landlord.
    * A love-lorn compounder, Ram Kumar (Ravi Kishan), who is crazy about the widowed daughter-in-law Shobha Rani (Rajeshwari Sachdev) of a retired army soldier.

  MORE from Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia....me_to_Sajjanpur

[noflylist]

Couple of songs were drag, BUT they were necessary for the letter writer was writing poetry for his friend. Hijra political rally songs (two) were necessary! So I am just impressed with Benegal compressing most of contempary India's problems in single movie!