Geeli Pucchi from Ajeeb Daastaans
Written and Directed by: Neeraj Ghaywan
Starring: Konkana Sen Sharma, Aditi Rao Hydari
Streaming on Netflix.
Every minute of Geeli Pucchi is heartbreaking. It keeps on adding up as the story keeps progressing. It starts with the plight of Bharti, about her not getting a job she deserves because of discrimination, and her falling in love with the exact person who has taken her place. Can it get worse? Yes, it can. People treat Bharti like shit, and Priya lets it happen. She is a bit naive because she doesn't face it, and perhaps also because she too can't do much about it. The scene where Bharti is standing outside as they cut cake for Priya's birthday, is a heartbreaking visual. When you think it can't get worse, it does. They call her inside and ask her cut it into pieces and distribute it to everyone.
Bharti and Priya fall in love. Priya can't love her husband no matter how hard she tries, there is no chemistry between them. They live at a place where they don't even have privacy. Bharti tells her to go have a baby because then when people will respect you, and because she knows how it feels to be treated like shit. Priya moves on from Bharti. Can it get worse? Yes, it does. Bharti helps Priya throughout her pregnancy for her to have a baby. Being there for someone while going through a heartbreak is not easy. And it feels like for the kind of pain Bharti has been going through all her life, she is probably used to being in this place. It's almost like the knife gets in deeper and deeper in us as the film keeps progressing.
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