This movie once again shows the brahmin as the weaker party. If the muslim had been killed by an iyer, will the wife of that muslim ever pardon?
All those who claim to be brahmins here, please think.
sarma,
in fact ganga (kavya character) asks the same question to razia (meera jasmine) in the movie, and receives no answer.
i think, the intent of the movie, is that, love for humanity wins over the need for revenge. other points that struck me were, that forgiveness is a better feeling, because ganga could not live with the death of raziya's husband, when the decision for him to live or not, rests with her.
also, there is female bonding. both these women are 2nd rate members in their own household. as long as they 'behave' themselves, they are tolerated. so, here was a chance for ganga to assert herself.
raziya herself abjectly surrenders herself. she approaches ganga 4 times, each time, more pathetic and desperate. it was one of complete surrender, and begging for forgiveness and a chance. for raziya, life without her husband, is even more bleak, as we find, even before the husband is dead, the husband's cousin is making sexual overtures to her.
i thought the ending was also redeeming. the husband akbar, after 7 years in saudi prison, comes first on return to india, to thank ganga. we also find, ganga, in a small home business of her own, providing employment to two other poor women, making murukkus, a typical occupation of poor brahmins. but we find dignity and peace in her.
everyone wishes the killing did not happen. but then there is no story. is there?
i think, if the roles were reversed, forgiveness can come from raziya too. why not?
i also think, there was a brahmin character here, only because, as a community we are more 'mature' and less into getting worked up, over how cinema portrays us.
long ago when i saw padosan, and the mehmood caricatured us, i was upset. but since then, i don't care. apparently mehmood was close to the truth, as to how, tambrams were viewed in delhi and bombay of those times.