A Lame Person's Movie Review: Old BollyWood Movies

 Hi!

Continuing with the series and to not feel guilty about ending up watching stories, I am going to cover some of the other media I have consumed over the last year. If you think you were entertained by this blog post, I would consider 2020 to have been mildly productive.

Let's get right to it!

Aradhana: Here the leading lady falls in love with an air force pilot, who decides to marry her "secretly". Then he dies. The pilots family doesn't acknowledge the "bad charactered girl" who is now preggers with the pilot's child. She has no money, and is abandoned so has to give her child up for adoption. She wants to be a part of his life and becomes his nanny. Win-win? No! The creature who adopted her son makes unwanted advances. So one fine day, her son kills this guy. This lady saves her son by taking the blame, an then rots in jail. She get's out and then surprise, surprise, finds her son dating the jailer's daughter. She hides the fact that she is his mother, and then dies. The End. Oh, and she cries a LOT during this whole movie. the whole movie is a cry fest.  THIS IS HER SACRIFICE. BEHOLD. The moral of the story? Do Not Marry Someone in Secret.

Amar Prem: The leading lady is thrown out of her husband's house because she is "barren" and the husband has brought a new lady to be his wife. The leading lady's only surviving relative - the mom, is ashamed of her daughter not being able to "keep her husband" and disowns her. (The joke's on her, this poor excuse of a human being cannot feed herself - because news flash! you're a woman in traditionally correct India, and you have no job.) The leading lady after a lot of begging and pleading decides to kill herself but is stopped by some rando in her village who immediately sells her off to a brothel. She surprisingly takes it well. Then her singing brings to her door a "rich and lonely" guy, whose wife likes living an independent life while he wanted a "traditional lady". So he frequents the leading lady's quarters. They both share their sorrows with hard-hitting dialogues (and beautiful songs) and then one day one of the children from her village drops by. This child is abused at home because he has a stepmother. Yass we are hitting all clichés now. The child is hungry and she feeds him treats and treats him as her own! Only wait! the abusive lady finds out about this and takes issue because a "man from her house mustn't frequent such disgusting establishments". So the child is forbidden to visit her, and our leading lady forbids the father figure - the guy who visits her frequently also likes this random child - from visiting her since "men from decent households shouldn't visit establishments like hers" so the man agrees. And then after decades, the child is all grown up and a job holder, and visits the old quarters of the lady he fondly remembers as being his true mother. He doesn't find her there and chances upon her being mistreated by the owner of a PG for not washing utensils right (she is the maid there, and is destitute) Then the rich guy also happens to meet these two (man the coincidences we see to move the plot along!) and everyone is happy temporarily. Then the rich guy goes off on his way and grown up man says - you are my real mother and you shall live with me. This is AMAR PREM. Ahem. Moral of the story? Do not be born as a woman?

I will be updating this post with more movies as I remember them.

Until next Time,

DragonRider