Laaga Sunday me daag!! review

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The only two things which I could discover as common in Pradeep Sarkar’s Parineeta and Laaga chunri me daag: One, both the films start with strongly accented colloquial songs and the second, both the films end with a premature ejaculation of conflicts, writes RJ Mallika

“You risk flogging a dead horse in saying that feudalism is stupid and wrong. But you also feel for the characters in those films. They're pathetic, like dinosaurs who don't realize why they're being wiped out. There's a quality of pathos in that which interests me” said Satyajit Ray once while justifying the crisis and pathos depiction in his cinema.

Similarly, Pradeep Sarkar has outshined in depicting the plight of the Vyaas family but fails to express the conflicts and the duality of emotions. They look very juvenile and predictable.

Infidelity to immorality is what defines deviance of director’s camera from Parineeta to Laaga chunri me daaag. His fascination of women protagonist trying to ‘˜ move out of the sytem ‘˜ gives a strong sniff of Satyajit Ray’s Charulata where she struggled to resolve the problem of infidelity. Charulata probably felt sympathetic and was attempting to patch up the situation. The husband realized too late that he himself was responsible for what had happened. Similiarly in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag she gets her due acceptance and credit for her sacrifices with no complexities and no climaxes.

From a progressive cinema like Chak de India to a regressive cinema like Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, what a compensating journey for Yash Raj Films.

Like laaga chunri me daag, Paakezah, Aaina, Umrao jaan, Julie, Chameli , Chandni baar are the product of virtual domination of male directors who have repeatedly tried to represent the oldest trade of this country prostitution’ . They all have tried their level best to portray the dreaded life and the unmasked vulgar face behind the glamour. Moreover it is just an obvious formula for winning national awards like Umrao Jaan, Chandni baar and Mausam.

Pradeep sarkar seems to have lost track from direction to activism. His cinema antics here has just tried to glorify use of Hindu symbols like Hanuman chaleesa, banars ghaats and gangajal. And mind blowing promotion campaign coupled with Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi was more than enough to promote the stifled and suffocated thought of women empowerment to Indian household ( Pradeep Sarkar’s advertising background helps him here in the right product placement). Along with K series soaps this film will do wonders in reinforcing the moral dogma of a woman. Selling the concept of puritans to Indian families who are bothered every night at 10.00 pm in front of their TV sets to see Tulsi’s struggle to justify the taints on her ‘˜daaman’ proving her purity for last seven years. Daily!

The only two things which I could discover as common in Pradeep Sarkar’s Parineeta and Laaga chunri me daag: One, both the films start with strongly accented colloquial songs and the second, both the films end with a premature ejaculation of conflicts.

After watching the much anticipated Pradeep Sarkar movie on a lazy Sunday afternoon, these were the true feeling which came from me while coming out of the theatre:
Laaga Sunday me daaag!