Originally posted by: _symphony
The problem is the things you are mentioning are never shown in the film. Manu is shown doing a job at a dhaba but nowhere the director establishes that she is trying to get a better job but failing. None of them have any educational aspirations nor any financial aspirations. Leave that they dont even know what kind of jobs their neighbours who went to London are doing. There’s this movie, Aa ab laut chalen where just within 10 mins into the movie it gets so well narrated how Akshay Khanna’s character thinks if he goes to the US his financial problems will get resolved as a neighbour’s son is living there and his mom keeps on raving about his luxurious life there. If a movie that came 20+ years ago could establish so well why cant this movie? Nobody gives any background here. Who wants to do what and why.. everything is left to the assumption of the audience. And then they suddenly start criticising the IELTS, the visa law, the immigration law.
I agree to the first part. INdeed, the only aspirations the three have are those of the financial kind:
Manu earning enough money to get back - for her father - the property he lost to debts.
Balli earning enough money to make her mom stop to machine-sewing all the time.
Buggu earning enough money so that his mother would do woman work in woman clothes.
These three are like a Trimurti doing things together with Manu having the leading position.
All three were unhappy in their respective jobs they did in Laltu. Buggu was bumped, Manu and Balli left.
Basically, in 1995, they were nothing special but they thought they could become as special as others had become in the town who had left Laltu for London.
That is the setting at the beginning of the movie and I think that is enough to understand why they would fail to get a visa and use the dunki option (which is already clear from the title).
Yet it is - as a criticism of the system - important to know how their unlogical dreams get exploited (even the student visa is a fraud).
Afterthought: SRK has now produced 3 movies that are criticising certain systems and also in Pathaan, he expresses criticism about a system. It definitely is something remarkable. It reminds me of Raees where he did that, too.
Edited by Clochette - 8 months ago
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