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skin by: Jane
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 8:55 PM| 0 comments
Movie: Hindi: Ijaazat (1987)

The first time I tried to watch this movie was when I was bored out of my mind and a friend recommended me this movie. After twenty minutes into the movie, I felt like pulling my hair out. In the end I had watched a teen slasher horror movie to get myself out of my self inflicted boredom. But a few weeks later, I decided to give this movie another try and I simply fell in love with the maturity in which the characters handles themselves. This is not a movie that one might want to watch to relieve themselves of boredom. This is a movie to be watched for the sake of enjoying a fantastic movie, amazing music and good acting.
A divorced couple meet in railway station waiting room to wait out the night for their next train and they get to talk. Sudha (Rekha) is engaged to Mahinder (Nasseruddin Shah) who has an affair with Maya (Anuradha Patel). Mahinder marries Sudha and its an arranged marriage. Maya is the complexity which the movie offers you as she readily accepts Sudha as her sister and yet she continues to meet Mahinder. Its little surprising when a girl like Maya, who writes amazing poetry cannot fathom the fact that once a guy is married, then she had to maintain a distance. Director gives a response for this dilemma. Maya is a free bird, an independent soul who loves wind, poetry, obscure paintings and Mahinder. He has inspired her to write poetry and in him she finds a crazy security. Sudha leaves Mahinder when she realizes that she would never take the place of Maya nor could she influence her husband to lead the life that she wants till Maya was in his life. She leaves her husband. After this the story is verbally finished by Mahinder in that waiting room (thank fully) and Sudha comes to know that Maya died in accident after she came to know that she herself was the reason for Mahinder's divorce. In the end Sudha touches Mahinder's feet and takes his permission to leave with her new husband, Shahshi Kapoor. This part threw me off because in the whole movie Sudha is one stable character and one of the most independent one and also someone who has come in terms with ground reality. She doesn't throw a tantrum when she finds Maya's stuff in her house. She doesn't yell at her husband when he comes home late after hanging out with Maya. At times it looks as if it was her resigned acceptance of the situation. But in the end it really shows that she did care when her husband neglected her. But it was her pride which had stopped her from claiming something that she knew in her heart that it would never belong to her. By touching his feet she gives him the status of someone above her as our society preaches - patriarchy. She gives him the respect that he was denied of irrespective of his own short comings. In the end she walks away with her husband and Mahinder is left gaping at the happy couple.
This is one movie where I love Rekha's acting. She has an amazing voice and in this movie it is her asset. She is poised, dignified and calm; three things that we fail to see in characters of most movies where extra marital affair is involved. When she finds Maya's items that are lying around the house, she simply hunts further and collects all of them. Of course Maya's reply is poetry to that which has this immortal song -Mera kuch samaan, a haunting melody.
This is one of my all time favorite movie and its something that I can watch any day, any time.

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