Kahani Review Part 2

In the part 2 of movie reviews, I will concentrate on the following.

1.     What is the social impact that the movie has tried to make ?

2.     If there are some improvement points.

1.     Social Impact

1.1  Women Characters : The movie boasts of strong women characters but the case in not so. The character of Arjun Rampal’s wife was especially troublesome. Even after knowing about his another marriage, she remains apologetic is disturbing and sets a wrong example. The central plan was also executed by the character of Arjun Rampal himself. This waters down everything that I had expected of the so called strong character of Vidya Balan. Although her character remains strong uptill the last 5 minutes, but the take home feeling is that she just executed the plan made by someone else.

1.2  Taking up Social Causes : The movie takes up a very important yet neglected social evil of ‘in family sexual exploitation’. It happens everywhere. The issue is taken up fairly well. However the problem is that no solution is proposed. Running away with the girl and shooting the culprit is not the correct thing as per me.

Overall the movie scores low on social impact. The impact is limited to realization and highlighting of a social evil.

2.     Improvement Points

2.1  Movies are a powerful medium to bring about social change. They impact the subconscious mind and indirectly the decision making. If I were the story writer, I would have given more power to the women characters.

2.2  The indifference of the small girl’s grandmother to the sexual exploitation of her grand children is unrealistic.

2.3  The over attachment of Vidya with the small girl is also unrealistic as per my understanding.

3.     Social Impact Rating 0.5/5