Just saw Baabul. For most who won’t remember, it’s the movie with Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee dealing with widow remarriage. The movie didn’t work at the box- office or with me, but the concept clicked.
I am lucky. In my immediate and extended family I haven’t seen death strike anyone at a really young age. Touch wood. So the concept of widow remarriage is one that I am still in the dark about. I don’t believe on standing on a pedestal and saying that I am pro or anti anything. Until you experience it, how can you understand it? That’s the beauty of the journey of life. No one is dealt the same cards.
Coming back to the topic, is society these days any better than the past on the issue of widow remarriage? Forgive me for my ignorance on this issue but I don’t read much about it in the papers. I mean, yes, I have read about sad stories that emanate from remote villages from the country but most of the times I attribute this to lack of education and poverty. But watching the movie, I am questioning if such situations also take place in the Mumbai?
Does life for a woman really end if her husband dies young? Do the educated still believe that a widow is a badhaa in any joyous occasion? Excuse my naivety but I always believed that education enlightened the soul. Do others feel so? I am clueless and in search of the truth. Can anyone out there enlighten me?
