The story tries to in a way change perception showcasing that arranged marriages are not forced as perceived by people outside India. Although, there is a lot of manipulation involved and pressure build for these women to eventually give in and walk into a strange home with a new set of rules and little to no consideration about what these girl really want.
With 3 parallel stories, Dipti is a simple teacher who's always smiling and accommodating, we see times when she's depressed that she's almost 30 and yet hasn't found a partner. Her parents also put a point forward that she has no friends while trying to convince a prospective groom to consider his daughter making it sound like it's a positive. Eventually, Dipti takes matters in her own hands signing up on a matrimonial website finding a perfect boy for her who likes her the way she is!
While dipti's story still brought smiles, Ritu's story simply made me as a viewer frustrated. Girls parents looking for money, boys parents looking for beauty and it's a perfect match! It's pretty unsettling to even try to understand that people form well to do families in India with an education, feel the need to fall for society pressures and getting their perfectly financially and emotionally independent daughter married because of a few nosey relatives. As expected the boy had money, the girl agreed to dump her career to join his business. At one part of the interview the boy actually says that he'd love to get married at 40 but he's doing it because he has to, while Ritu just quietly sat there listening to her fiancé say he probably didn't want to marry her and would have married someone else if not her later in life. Well, so much for being romantic right before your wedding.
Amruta's story was a true reality check. A Delhi girl who loved to party, chill with her friends, work and enjoy life, left everything behind for a man who stayed in a small town with his entire family. From cooking a tall stack of rotis everyday to making sure her sick father-in-law was taken care of, the story of this girl simply broke my heart. It sadly shows her big dreams come crushing down with household responsibilities and a loss of identity towards the end.
With 3 parallel stories, Dipti is a simple teacher who's always smiling and accommodating, we see times when she's depressed that she's almost 30 and yet hasn't found a partner. Her parents also put a point forward that she has no friends while trying to convince a prospective groom to consider his daughter making it sound like it's a positive. Eventually, Dipti takes matters in her own hands signing up on a matrimonial website finding a perfect boy for her who likes her the way she is!
While dipti's story still brought smiles, Ritu's story simply made me as a viewer frustrated. Girls parents looking for money, boys parents looking for beauty and it's a perfect match! It's pretty unsettling to even try to understand that people form well to do families in India with an education, feel the need to fall for society pressures and getting their perfectly financially and emotionally independent daughter married because of a few nosey relatives. As expected the boy had money, the girl agreed to dump her career to join his business. At one part of the interview the boy actually says that he'd love to get married at 40 but he's doing it because he has to, while Ritu just quietly sat there listening to her fiancé say he probably didn't want to marry her and would have married someone else if not her later in life. Well, so much for being romantic right before your wedding.
Amruta's story was a true reality check. A Delhi girl who loved to party, chill with her friends, work and enjoy life, left everything behind for a man who stayed in a small town with his entire family. From cooking a tall stack of rotis everyday to making sure her sick father-in-law was taken care of, the story of this girl simply broke my heart. It sadly shows her big dreams come crushing down with household responsibilities and a loss of identity towards the end.
