Kiran Rao’s ‘Laapataa Ladies’ is a satirical comedy whose entertainment value makes it easy to overlook the broad messaging
- Trinity Auditorium
- Feb 29, 2024
- 1 min read
The film has a wonderful bunch of fresh-faced actors. And it makes Big Points about women in heartland India.
The year is 2001. The place is Nirmal Pradesh, a stand-in for heartland India. A young woman named Phool (Nitanshi Goel) is being married off. Her face is covered with a veil — the traditional gold-orange ghoonghat – before she is packed off with her husband Deepu (Sparsh Shrivastav). Phool stumbles on the way to the scooter that will take them away from this village. Someone comments, “Aage nahin, neeche dekh ke chalna seekho!” The overnight change expected in a married woman is instantly established. Till yesterday, Phool walked like everyone else. But from now, thanks to the veil that covers her face entirely, she will have to keep looking down. A literal situation based on rocky terrain transforms into a telling metaphor about a wife’s place in her new home.
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