Yesterday I happened to watch a movie called "Pranali : The Tradition". The movie throws light on Devdaasi culture (which, the director claims, is still prevalent at some parts of India), but moreover the story turns around Mumbai's red light area and prostitutes' fight for their rights.
Pranali is a girl who lives in Maharastra . She is taken by the Pundit to make a Devdasi. Later, when she seeks the help of police, she is ultimately pushed to the life of a prostitute in Mumbai. Director, Hirdesh Kambe has shown wittingly how prostitutes are made in our society. Facts and numbers are also given where they were needed. Pranali's life takes a U turn when she becomes a mother of a girl child. An NRI named Vijay, who is doing a research on Prostitution in India begins to like Pranali's daughter Roshni and creates awareness in prostitutes for their rights, this leads to Hadtaal and Bazaar Band for many days. But politically they do not succeed. Ideally, Pranali opens a re-establishment center for prostitutes and creates alternate employment for them. Vijay writes a book on Pranali's life "Break the Silence", which becomes the bestseller in Europe.
A thought-provoking movie. The role of Upendra Limaye as Sultan and Pagali are too catchy and touching. There are many scenes in the movie which touch you deeply. Especially the one where Sultan takes a little girl from Orphanage to a bunglow on insistence of Akka (Sudha Chandran), and the little girl dies there.
To me, the movie is thousand times better than those of loose comedy movies of these days.
So I give it, 3 Stars.
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| 2008, Hirdesh Kambe (Director) |
Pranali is a girl who lives in Maharastra . She is taken by the Pundit to make a Devdasi. Later, when she seeks the help of police, she is ultimately pushed to the life of a prostitute in Mumbai. Director, Hirdesh Kambe has shown wittingly how prostitutes are made in our society. Facts and numbers are also given where they were needed. Pranali's life takes a U turn when she becomes a mother of a girl child. An NRI named Vijay, who is doing a research on Prostitution in India begins to like Pranali's daughter Roshni and creates awareness in prostitutes for their rights, this leads to Hadtaal and Bazaar Band for many days. But politically they do not succeed. Ideally, Pranali opens a re-establishment center for prostitutes and creates alternate employment for them. Vijay writes a book on Pranali's life "Break the Silence", which becomes the bestseller in Europe.
A thought-provoking movie. The role of Upendra Limaye as Sultan and Pagali are too catchy and touching. There are many scenes in the movie which touch you deeply. Especially the one where Sultan takes a little girl from Orphanage to a bunglow on insistence of Akka (Sudha Chandran), and the little girl dies there.
To me, the movie is thousand times better than those of loose comedy movies of these days.
So I give it, 3 Stars.
