Indian film showing ‘shame on the bride’ in marriage arrangement

It is often said that marriages are made in the sky.

But in India, where most marriages are arranged, the process of making a match can feel like a path through hell for a woman and her family.

That is the stal tree: a match, the 2023 gritty marathi-spoken film won several Awards at India and abroad. It releases the first time in Indian theaters on Friday.

Put in the state of the mountain, the film centers around the savita, a young woman who strives for a patriarchal education, and a bad husband is wrapped – to find a good husband for her daughter.

“He likes a good price for his plant and a good match for his daughter,” says Director Director Director Jayant Digambar Somkarbar.

The film is known for the irreversible way it shows what leads to the leading actress “more embarrassing experience with many young women, unlike other Indian films about marriage arrangement.

Also got stlal as the whole cast is made up of first-time actors chosen from the village where it was shot. Nandini Chikte, playing Savita, won two awards for his good performance.

Opened by film with the order in which Savita interviewed a future groom.

Along with his relatives and friends, he was watching as the young man served them with drinks from a tray. They laughed when he was, apparently nervous, asking the question.

Aroused woke from what was done a dream, told Savita to prepare as a group of people to come to him.

In fact, gender roles were completely returned, and in a scene replayed several times in almost two hour film, Savita’s humility comes in sharp study.

The future groom and other men from his family were welcomed by the father of the Savite and a male relative. Visitors are fed tea and snacks and when the initials are finished, Savita is called.

Worn by a sari, with eyes quitting, he sat on the wooden bank facing his interrogators.

Questions come, thick and fast. What’s your name? Full name? Mommy’s Kamilya? Date of birth? Height? Education? SUBJECT? Hobbies? Are you willing to work on the farm?

The boys went out, to make a discussion. “She was a little dark. She had makeup on her face, but didn’t you see her elbow? That’s her real color,” as one. “He was too short,” he continued to add. Others agree with the agreement.

They left, saying the Daulamamo they answered for a few days to know their decision.

According to his parents, “This is the fourth or fifth time someone saw the savita” – all previous meetings ended with rejection, which leads to sorrow and despair.

Rings are real in the scene. In India, men often have a laundry list of traits they want their brides – a view of matrimonial collections and making websites like everyone, fair, beautiful brides.

Savita protests – “I don’t want to get married, I want to end college and then make a career examinations, where marriage is presented as a young woman.

“Marriage is given more important to our society,” Chikte told BBC. “Parents believe that once the daughter is married, they can be free from their responsibility. It’s time to change the account.”

Giingon niya nga nakit-an niya kini nga “makauulaw kaayo” nga gihimo sa Savita nga molingkod sa usa ka lingkuranan aron pagahukman sa tanan nga mga lalaki nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga tawo nga naghisgot bahin sa mga lalaki nga naghisgot bahin to the future groom.

“I just acted, but while the film went on, I lived on the Savite journey and I was angry with his name. I felt no insulting.”

The film also resolves social injuries that ran – the habit of cash in the bride’s gift, clothing and jewelry in the groom.

Even if it is illegal for more than 60 years, the stems are still unrelated to Indian weddings.

Parents know girls take many loans or also sold their land and home to meet demanding suits. Although that doesn’t have to ensure a happy life for a bride as thousands killed each year by the bride or his family for carrying insufficient weights.

In the movie, Daulatrao put a “sold” sign on his land, even when farming is his life.

The Director Somalkar says the idea for his debuted film is rooted in his or her own experience.

Growing with two sisters and five sisters, he witnessed the rite many times when prospective intelligence visits his home.

“As a child you didn’t question the tradition,” he said, adding that the turning point came in 2016 when he joined a cousin to see a future bride.

“This was the first time I was on the other side. I felt a bit uncomfortable when the woman came out and sat on a stool and was asked questions. When we stepped out for a discussion, I felt the conversation about her height and skin color was objectifying her.”

When he discussed the issue of his marriage at the time – who was now his wife – he encouraged him to check it at his job.

In a country where 90% of all marriages are arranged by families, Sathal is not the first to solve the topic of the screen. IMDb has A list of nearly 30 films about marital arrangement made by the Bollywood and regional film industry during the past two decades.

More recently, the weighted Netflix Show Matchmaking in India focused fully in the process of finding the perfect partner.

However, as Somalkar’s appointed, “marriages are more glamorized” on the screen.

“If we think of Indian weddings, we think of the big wedding fat full of fun and glamor. We think of the 1990 Bollywood Blockbuster who celebrates Indian wedding traditions.

“And Netflix Pow in a class of people, rich and educated and women can do their choice.

“But the reality for most Indians is very different and parents often pass through hell to marry their daughters,” he added.

His reason for making Sathal, he said, “Jolt Society and Towerencs out of satisfaction.

“I want to start a debate and encourage people to think about a process that testifies to women who are very free to choose between marriage and career,” he said.

“I know a book or a film that doesn’t change society all night, but it can be started.”

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