5/28/2023 0 Comments Saajan movie songI know, it's just a film, a fairytale-like story, but it's not just a film actually because it genuinely reflects an incredibly enraging mentality where everything is put on the slim shoulders of our heroine be it good or bad, and it is characteristic of so many films of the time. This motif in the film shows an amusingly distorted and prejudiced mindset through which the film rejects one superstition by invariably reinforcing another. We, the audience, realise right from the beginning what her father fails to understand - that her presence actually brought luck to the family. Her father hates her because he lost his wife who died at Juhi's childbirth and genuinely believes she is the sole reason behind every trouble that befell his family. ![]() ![]() This is one of several terrible, thankless roles she got to play around that time - the self-sacrificing, demure, purer-than-the-driven-snow kind of girl. Juhi Chawla, a talented actress in her own right, is the sole protagonist in this stereotypical and melodramatic fare.
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