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Thank you! Heh, yeah, this wasn’t always 24/7 Juliantina. Just go a month back and I had a very balanced, diversified blog. 😛
One thing I did catch is that it’s banned in Pakistan. Even as mild as it apparently is, it’s still not even going to be allowed. I wonder if that will pique the interest of younger Pakistanis to find some way to watch it, I did see comments on Twitter about how it shouldn’t have been banned and they wanted to see it.
Haha, I was looking in the Twitter tags for that last night already. Nice to see some other Bollywood big names supporting it.
That does seem more likely. Which. I dunno. The first mainstream Bollywood movie about a lesbian told through the POV of the guy who falls in love with her? It is what it is, I guess. Gotta give the hets something to watch for? Ease them into things? All right, all right. I calmed my own anger in this one paragraph, lol.
@booasaur if the average person watches this without knowing anything about the film they’d have no clue about the wlw storyline in the film. The entire video reads from his viewpoint (granted from the trailer he looks like he’s retelling a story) and I’m guessing that’s how Bollywood wants the vast majority of its audience to view the film.
Is this…a surprise they’re going to spring on people? A trap they’ve set for them? What do they think will happen on the 1st when it premieres?
Ek Ladki ko Dekha toh Aisa Laga (2019)Â – Title Song
Oh, right, I saw that and totally forgot not even two seconds later. And yeah, it really doesn’t seem like it can be between her and the guy, who her father actually loves. So no conflict or secret there.
I know! Out of freaking nowhere, suddenly a movie with these two and that’s the main plot. It’s amazing.Â
I really do like how they’re treating Anil’s character, because it would have been so easy to make him colder and more of a typical desi movie father whose approval is only won at the very end, but you just don’t want that in this kind of movie. I really appreciate the much lighter tone where, yes, she’s closeted out of fear of rejection but there’s not really the overlay of fear for her literal life.Â
And! That she gets to tell him that he disappointed her too. I really like this new trend in coming out stories, like in Supergirl or Will & Grace, where it’s no longer only about the person coming out acting like they’re finally letting go of this shameful secret but shifting some of the weight onto the shoulders of the family and friends that made it so difficult in the first place. I think the whole story here is being framed in such a smart way. That it’s going to be the homophobia that breaks up a nice family, not her being gay. And that if you’re a cool, loving parent, you’ll accept your kid.
I was wondering at claims this was the First and went over to look up Fire’s status, whether it was considered an indie or what, and man, it was released in 1996, right, and if you go to the Controversies and reaction section on its wiki, there’s just paragraphs of its treatment by the censors and the theaters that were repeatedly violently attacked for showing it. Two decades later, here we are.
