The movie released with a bang
with children, youth and old people going gaga over the great production and
awesome story line. I kept waiting till one of my colleagues requested me to go
and watch the movie as ignoring it would be a great miss for me. I considered
it.
I saw the movie, a grand
beginning which made it look like a historical epic. The stage was exotic,
story line seemed to be set in the beginning with Bajirao’s strength and
intelligence to be the main plot.
The story moved and the great
strength and intelligence is shown dominated by such a power of love which he
didn’t even owe. All right, I completely agree that love can make anyone lose
his or her senses, but this was not just anyone, but the great historic Hindu
king, Bajirao Ballhad.
The acting by all the characters
were superb, but somehow I found the fall of Bajirao as an insult to such a
great king who is shown to have become completely blind for a girl who came to
his kingdom on his own, forced him to get married to her, made him lose his
wife and friend, Kashibai, his son, his mother, his brother and the trust of
his own people.
No, don’t take me wrong, I am not
against Mastani because she was a Muslim, I hated her as she just did the role
of a villain and destroyed the great king and his loved ones. However, I hated
the plot at this point as Bajirao could never be so irresponsible that he
wouldn’t even think twice about that wife who worshiped him every time.
Remember the scene where she says
with tears in her eyes that he had forgotten his ways to his own room and the
moment she takes a promise from him to not visit her again, he goes out of the
room without any repentance.
Where is the realization? Mastani
is epitomized, but who is the real sufferer? It’s only Kasibai. At one
instance, Mastani says that Bajrao loves Kashi as much as he loves her. Great
sense of humour! It’s such a satire for a wife which would tear her heart
apart. And such dialogues of the movie are considered to approve the love of
Bajirao for Mastani. He is right as he has not divorced Kashibai or left her
forever. Does Mastani mean to say so? It sounds so funny. Isn’t just the
existence of another woman in Kashibai’s husband’s life an end of her marital
happiness?
NanaSahab, the son of Kashi bai
and Bajirao who is shown as the villain never seems to be wrong. How can he
digest the existence of a woman who destroyed not only her mother’s marital
bliss , but the entire kingdom.
If Mastani was so blindly in love
with Bajirao, why didn’t she live on his name for the whole life instead of
forcing him to marry her? She knew he was married and it would ruin his wife’s
life, but still she took help of her emotional drama to win over the man’s
intelligence and strength.
If the history is to be changed,
it shouldn’t be changed so much that the intelligence and power of a king goes
under the feet of a woman who actually shares no relation. Apart from being a
slap on the strength and discretion of our Hindu dynasty, it’s also a joke on
the place of women where anytime a woman can be left for another woman. In the whole
movie, if anyone was immortalized, that was Kashibai, who not faced the worst
circumstance of her life not only courageously, but also selflessly showing the
true spirit of an Indian woman and especially a king’s wife and her
responsibilities.
