Kanyadaan (1968) :
Brief Review -
The most stupid feminist film ever made in Bollywood? I guess so. Kanyadan's story had me gripped in the first half, but then the second half left in splits. I couldn't resist laughing at the backdated thinking of the writer and the way those characters anticipated it. I'll tell you the story, and I am sure even you'll find it very stupid. Amar falls in love with a village girl, Rekha, but they cannot marry since Rekha had a child marriage. There is no trace of her husband, but her mother insists on searching for him. God knows how child marriage was still relevant in the 1960s, and Rekha and her mother actually behaved as if it were a legal bond. Amar, being an educated rich guy, also has no legal thoughts that the marriage wasn't valid from any angle. Guess what? Amar tells them that he is the same guy who got married to Rekha in childhood. Funnily, he questions her about her reaction if he wasn't the same guy while taking her home, and she clearly says that she would leave him and live with her husband to obey her religion. Stupidity at its peak. Despite learning the answer, Amar still goes on to live with her and then creates a socially awakening feminist drama on stage so that Rekha can learn something. The drama has a woman abandoned by her husband and is going to commit suicide, but another man comes to save her and gives her a new life and new identity as she gets married a second time. However, Rekha is so stupid and outdated that she thinks that the woman should have committed suicide instead of second marriage. The same thing happens to her, and then she accidentally reaches her real husband's house, who is now happily married and has a son. The stupid feminism strikes again as Rekha decides to stay there and hide her reality, but no way she is thinking about her lover, husband, and her own future. That's all there is to this crap produced by Bollywood, which luckily turned out to be. Hit due to child marriage and Kanyadaan factors taking over rural parts of the country.
RATING - 4/10*
By - #samthebestest.
