Day: February 15, 2020

Posted in Movie Reviews, Reviews

Mardaani II: What we think

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By Padma Dolma

In the era where romance and comedy are the most popular genres, a movie like Mardaani 2 is trying to break the shackles. Very different from the mainstream entertainment and with a very important message for the audience, it hits all the right nerves.

For us, it was an eye opener and shows the sick mentality of some men who can’t handle criticism, especially by a woman.

Laced with gut wrenching and hard hitting scenes, it is a good try on part of the team to talk about such prevalent but ignored subject.

The sequel to Mardaani, Shivani Shivaji Roy, a lady super cop is after a young & remorseless criminal who is murdering young women and raping them. Yash Raj’s this film has broke forth wall where the villain talks to the audience directly and keeps that pace through out the film.

The movie portrays the misogyny structure of Indian society where Shivani faces discrimination at her work place.

The story is based in ‘Kota’ city which is a student region where crime happens very often and ‘Sunny” a criminal who was hired by a local politician to kill a reporter and he has a personality where he can’t tolerate the women’s empowerment and their high status in the society ,he has a sick mind and in the process of assassination of the reporter he encountered several girls who he had rapped and murdered and Shivani is the SP of the city.

In the phase of catching him she calls him “Dedd Shana,” an over smart lad in a press conference that made him even more igitated, and he takes it as an open challenge. He sends her flowers, busts into her house and took some of her dresses, even got a job in tea stall near her police station where he got to evesdrop the case. He also abducts the witness who is a kid and kills him, getting all the fingers pointed on Shivani and making her the center of media criticism, resulting in her transfer.

While everyone was busy in Diwali celebration she had just two days in hand to catch the culprit. At last she gets the criminal and allows all her aggression to let go. 

Anupama Chopra says, Mukherjee’s performance was a consistently watchable one , her review on the movie states that she was satisfied by the punishing of the criminal who did heinous crime to women.

Image courtesy: @timesofindia

Posted in Know your Area, Transportation

FREE BUS RIDES: A WELCOME MOVE

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Image courtesy: @livehindustan.com

By Simran Kaur

Now that women no longer have to think about the costs of travel, it will open up doors to many avenues to them. No girl will be forced to drop out of school or college. The Aam Aadmi Party’s scheme under which women have access to free bus travel in Delhi is a welcome move for women empowerment.

The women of Delhi will become empowered to fulfill their dreams. This is not to suggest that the move will solve every problem, but I am sure it will be a very important step towards empowering women.

The savings made by women on travel will also help sustain households and give them legroom for other expenditures, especially in times of economic slowdown. Some may choose to spend it on increasing the quarter of milk they feed their children, others on purchasing books for them. Increased purchasing power has the potential to take the entire society along on a path to prosperity.

The thousands of crores of rupees our citizens collectively save every year because services like education, healthcare, water are free, is essentially money that flows back into the economy. It has created immense economic value for the city.

Improving women’s access to public transport will also make them feel safer. Mass transit around the world gives a sense of security to women, because of the sheer number of women travelling together.

When my cousin was a student at IIT Delhi, she would take the Yellow Line Metro to college. Even after she started working, we have always preferred her taking the Metro over a cab. I’m confident most parents of daughters feel the same.

Along with the free bus scheme, government has also deployed 13,000 bus marshals for all shifts. Delhi’s free buses are also the safest travel option for women now. 

AAP’s historic win in Delhi made it to front pages of newspaper across India. Aam Aadmi Party, or common man’s party, whose pro-poor policies focused on fixing state-run schools and providing cheap electricity, free health care and bus transport for women during its five years in power, rolled out in their favour.