Meherjaan

One of the worst movies in the history of Bangladesh. The movie spreads a blatant LIE of unfathomable magnitude. The director, according to various reports is an ISI-funded activist with the political agenda of confusing a wider new-generation audience. Absolute distortion of historical facts have been depicted, and a heinous effort of misleading the perception of unaware audience is apparent. People from all spheres with slightest knowledge regarding the Liberation War of Bangladesh have condemned this blunder of a movie. Thousands have voiced their frustrations regarding the movie content and how it might be viewed as utterly shameless 'Goebbelsian Propaganda'.

My advice: "Do not even think of wasting time watching this utter rubbish. And if you really do, please do not conceive the LIES the director systematically portrayed"

when there are only few movies about the historical war in 1971, this kind of movie will confused everyone. The director should be ashamed for it. there are many historical event about 1971, how many of them are focused already? still we cry when we read the true story from freedom fighter. this kind of movie can be made after making 1000 positive movie about our war. then people can accept it as a story. this is a propaganda and a chance to commit their act by a movie. the director tell that she is a daughter of a freedom fighter, then what about her grandfather? people of Bnagladesh know about them very well. rather it is unexpected to get a movie like this in this time when the government is for the freedom fighter. shame on you Ms director and also to your father.

This movie is simply a propaganda movie with good cinematography to promote an idea among the new generation of Bangladesh - that the Pakistani army was very much human towards ladies of Bangladesh during 1971 liberation war. This is important cause this movie got released on the eve of the starting of the trial of collaborators of Pakistani army.

It shows love affair between a "Baluch" soldier and a girl of Bangladesh. Even when the elder sister of that girl got raped brutally by Pakistan armies, the girl (Meher) fantasize about loving that "Baluch" soldier.

The movie shows freedom fighters as retarded, tired of war and just bullshits. The characters were built in a way that people will laugh at them. Muslim League - a political party of that time in Pakistan supported the genocide that time for the sake of religion. But in the movie it is showing that the freedom fighters seeking permission from a Muslim league leader for attacking a Paki base.

Fantasy or Imagination or whatever you call it --- should have a limit, specially while dealing with crucial historical fact. This movie failed to satisfy any of the criteria to be a so called "WAR AND LOVE" movie. It remains as a bullshit propaganda movie to affect the trial of collaborators of Pakistani army.

The story of the movie has been written to create a noise so that people will go to theatre to watch it. So by mistake if someone watch it, he/she will never watch the movie in his/her life time ever. Not only the movie fails to capture true sufferings of the women in Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War, but also the poor direction mainly because of the inexperienced director made the film nothing but a 'garbage'. I have never rated a movie as awful but it was easy to do so with this one. Bad acting by the cast. Bad scenarios. Bad writing. Bad music score except only one song. The camera work is very slow. The plot has no sense at all. It is just confusion.

Meherjaan is more about the war of different ideologies than the actual combats that took place in 1971 Bangladesh. The interactions among Freedom fighters, the communists and the seekers of reconciliation showed this dilemma very well. The story is told from a perspective that was never seen in any previous 1971 movies, the dilemma of social leaders, the fact that people did not cease to be human beings just because a war is happening and they belong to a particular side of the battle. As far as love is concerned, the image of "the Knight and his girl" portrays the teenage emotions which disregards the surrounding realities. There are some memorable scenes in Meherjan, e.g. the scene when Wasim leaves the village in a boat for ever; or when Meher comes to the window to see his imprisoned lover. The cinematography in this film is generally good, and great at some points. The Baul music used in some scenes were helpful to understand the emotions of the characters. Victor Banarjee have done a wonderful acting as the Grandpa. But some conspicuous flaws prevented this film from becoming a great one. The costume of the female characters was not consistent with the time of the story. Very recent styles of dialog and pronunciation were used by the characters of 1971 Bangladesh. The acting of the two romantic leads were not up to the mark. The chemistry between Meher and Wasim were not allowed to be shown before the audience. I have rated this movie 6/10 which is way higher than other contemporary Bangla films. If you are tired of the same typical stories of war, go watch this movie to see something new.