Movie name: Thappad
Release date: 28 February 2020
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: India
Language: Hindi
IMDB rating: 7.1/10
Personal rating: 8/10
Just think, in a crowded meeting, your wife would slap you on the face. How would you feel? Imagine a little!
Could you tolerate the whole thing? Are the veins on both sides of the neck swollen with anger, rage, humiliation, pain? For that slap in less than a second, is your whole world upside down right now?
Just think about thar situation! Then what could go on inside the girl who was humiliated in front of everyone in this way? In a moment, her life was filled with emptiness, loneliness and disrespect.
Oh no! She's a girl, she has to adapt to a little slap. The is a common thing in families. This is how our mothers and grandmothers have been living. Director Anubhav Sinha has given a slap in the face to this erroneous unfair rule of the patriarchal society, the heinous concept of the medieval period; with his movie 'Thappad' (Slap). Seven women who acted in the movie including Taapsee Pannu have made that slap more alive.
The movie further showed that in our society, physical assault is not a serious matter for girls. From upper class to middle class, middle class to lower class --- There is a custom of beating wife effortlessly in almost every house in almost all the races and religions of India. The upper class does this by running loudspeakers in the house. Middle class and lower class do not care about public shame. The next day, the girl or the wife hides the scars of assault and tells everyone, 'I fell and got hurt.' That picture is very clear in this movie.
'Thappad' (Slap) is the story of an Indian housewife named Amrita. She has a happy small family. Husband Vikram is addicted to work. Taking care of her mother-in-law who is a diabetic patient, taking care of all the household chores alone and accepting her husband's happiness as her own happiness; She has strangled and killed all her personal desires to make her husband happy. But Amrita never had any regrets about that. That familiar scene changed on the day while Vikram slapped her on her face at a houseful party. Even after this, should a girl tolerate everything and say ‘Husband is the ultimate master’?
The movie then revolves around the slap. Where it has been said, a slap is equally disrespectful to both men and women. It is not only insulting to women or men alone. Only he, who has confronted this humiliation knows it makes a person how much traumatized, whether in a closed room or in front of people. At the same time, it has been said that the way in which Indian society or India respects the institution called 'marriage', slap is enough to destroy that institution. Although both the bride and groom have been advised to adapt to save the 'institution', it will be given also in upcoming days, but only to the girls. Men will not be ruled by society even after committing such a disrespectful act; Indian society has never shown the duty to rule over men.
After the release of the movie trailer, 'divorced for a slap!' Many in the patriarchal society could not accept this. Even the most shocking thing was that there were many educated women in the procession who could not accept this! The concept of the movie was not just a slap in the face. There was a message of a hundred years of injustice behind a slap. There was a call to awaken the eroded self-esteem. So, not only the slap is the message, but also the thousands of injustice that have been highlighted in the name of acceptance behind it.
This 142-minute film is about a society where a girl is raised from a young age with the teaching that 'You have to adopt'. You have to learn to hold on. It could be a slap! In fact, many people are accustomed to hearing such things. But let's break that taboo and endure this time equally. Domestic violence, uxoricide, dowry are talked about every day but if it is possible to raise voice against the first slap; the scenario could change in future.
Release date: 28 February 2020
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: India
Language: Hindi
IMDB rating: 7.1/10
Personal rating: 8/10
Just think, in a crowded meeting, your wife would slap you on the face. How would you feel? Imagine a little!
Could you tolerate the whole thing? Are the veins on both sides of the neck swollen with anger, rage, humiliation, pain? For that slap in less than a second, is your whole world upside down right now?
Just think about thar situation! Then what could go on inside the girl who was humiliated in front of everyone in this way? In a moment, her life was filled with emptiness, loneliness and disrespect.
Oh no! She's a girl, she has to adapt to a little slap. The is a common thing in families. This is how our mothers and grandmothers have been living. Director Anubhav Sinha has given a slap in the face to this erroneous unfair rule of the patriarchal society, the heinous concept of the medieval period; with his movie 'Thappad' (Slap). Seven women who acted in the movie including Taapsee Pannu have made that slap more alive.
The movie further showed that in our society, physical assault is not a serious matter for girls. From upper class to middle class, middle class to lower class --- There is a custom of beating wife effortlessly in almost every house in almost all the races and religions of India. The upper class does this by running loudspeakers in the house. Middle class and lower class do not care about public shame. The next day, the girl or the wife hides the scars of assault and tells everyone, 'I fell and got hurt.' That picture is very clear in this movie.
'Thappad' (Slap) is the story of an Indian housewife named Amrita. She has a happy small family. Husband Vikram is addicted to work. Taking care of her mother-in-law who is a diabetic patient, taking care of all the household chores alone and accepting her husband's happiness as her own happiness; She has strangled and killed all her personal desires to make her husband happy. But Amrita never had any regrets about that. That familiar scene changed on the day while Vikram slapped her on her face at a houseful party. Even after this, should a girl tolerate everything and say ‘Husband is the ultimate master’?
The movie then revolves around the slap. Where it has been said, a slap is equally disrespectful to both men and women. It is not only insulting to women or men alone. Only he, who has confronted this humiliation knows it makes a person how much traumatized, whether in a closed room or in front of people. At the same time, it has been said that the way in which Indian society or India respects the institution called 'marriage', slap is enough to destroy that institution. Although both the bride and groom have been advised to adapt to save the 'institution', it will be given also in upcoming days, but only to the girls. Men will not be ruled by society even after committing such a disrespectful act; Indian society has never shown the duty to rule over men.
After the release of the movie trailer, 'divorced for a slap!' Many in the patriarchal society could not accept this. Even the most shocking thing was that there were many educated women in the procession who could not accept this! The concept of the movie was not just a slap in the face. There was a message of a hundred years of injustice behind a slap. There was a call to awaken the eroded self-esteem. So, not only the slap is the message, but also the thousands of injustice that have been highlighted in the name of acceptance behind it.
This 142-minute film is about a society where a girl is raised from a young age with the teaching that 'You have to adopt'. You have to learn to hold on. It could be a slap! In fact, many people are accustomed to hearing such things. But let's break that taboo and endure this time equally. Domestic violence, uxoricide, dowry are talked about every day but if it is possible to raise voice against the first slap; the scenario could change in future.
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