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This message of “family” is especially resonant given how often women are portrayed as competing against each other. They have created a family, initially through simple blood and marriage, but also through friendship and affection.
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The movie closes with Roma and Raj’s wedding, a closing shot of Raj, Suzy, Roma, Ladjo, Suraj, and Shabbo. What seems like two similar circumstances are actually vastly different, and all because of their relationships to a man.Īnd in the end, the brothers find common ground and avenge their father. Suzy and Ladjo are both widows, but Ladjo and Raj still had a security that Suzy and Suraj did not. He describes the difficult life he, and his mother, have led because of Samsher’s abandonment. Suraj is angry with Raj, and rejects his offers of family. Ladjo welcomes Suzy into her home.įinally the plots converge, and the brothers confront one another. But Raj finally fulfills her dream, and takes her to India.
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She is elated when she thinks Samsher has returned shattered when she learns the truth. Before he leaves, his mother tells him about Suzy and her soon, and asks him to find them. Can’t we just have that without sexual violence? Can’t we just have nice things?Įventually, the hunt for his father’s murderer takes him to Hong Kong. Roma is cool, competent, determined, running legitimate and illegitimate businesses. That’s a trope I’m happy to leave in the past. Roma at first rebuffs Raj’s advances, but starts to fall for him after he saves her from assault. Suraj tries to court Roma, but becomes too tongue-tied. She also exports drugs for her stepfather and cares for her drug-addicted mother. Roma inherited a tea plantation from her father, and runs it, even taking the time to kiss a laborer’s baby. Raj and Suraj meet Roma, the stepdaughter of Samsher’s murderer. Shabbo and Suraj even share a musical montage, friends and partners-in-crime. Shabbo is funny, clever, and has fantastic fashion sense. Perhaps Shabbo is a girl because later she helps Suraj court a woman, Roma (Shabana Azmi). In the meantime, Suraj meets a street-wise orphan, Shabbo (Baby Shalu). Suraj is hired by the murderer to find missing gold buried at the bottom of a lake. Raj wants to bring his father’s murdered to justice. Suzy’s son, Suraj (Danny Denzongpa), is now a kung fu expert and diver. Raj (also played by Vinod Khanna) is a police inspector. The movie flashes forward to then-present day. She dutifully raises her son, but she never stops hoping Samsher will return. And especially tragically, Suzy cannot move on. We see two women whose entire lives are defined by their relationships to men. Lajo, of course, dresses as a widow for the rest of her life. She continues hoping he will return to her, sending letters and styling herself as a bride. Worse still, Suzy never learns of his death. However, not long after this reunion, Samsher is betrayed by a comrade and murdered. That her beloved husband lives is the most important thing to Ladjo, and she will accept those circumstances. Instead, we see the complex bonds between women, understanding the strange circumstances of war and rebellion. One would expect Ladjo to be angry, to refuse to acknowledge Suzy. Lajo is upset, but then says she accepts the other woman as her sister, since Suzy helped save Samsher’s life. Ladjo is overjoyed to see Samsher, and he confesses to her about his affair. Only when Samsher returns home do we learn he is already married to Ladjo (Indrani Mukherjee), and has a son. She tells him to go, to send for her and the child when it is safe. But just as Suzy prepares to tell Samsher she is pregnant, he explains he can finally return to India. Samsher spends six months with Suzy, engaging in a typical Bollywood romance, including a romantic duet. Why was she in China? Why couldn’t she return to India? We don’t learn much else about Suzy’s mother, but what a sad detail. Shamsher’s appearance is a sign: Suzy’s mother had always dreamed of returning to India since her mother’s death, now this is Suzy’s dream. She hides him from the British and they soon fall in love. He takes refuge in apartment, the home of Indian-Chinese Suzy (Helen). The movie opens with Samsher Singh (Vinod Khanna) in Hong Kong, on the run from the British. In turn, the women enliven what is otherwise a pretty standard plot: brothers, unknown to each other, one working for the “good” guys, the other the “bad,” uniting in the end to defeat the villain. They have names and motivations, they help and hinder, rage and love.Īnd inadvertently, even as it seems to focus on the men, it shows the consequences of being a woman left behind: poverty, uncertainty, hope, sadness, ingenuity.
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To my surprise, while men are protagonists, the movie is full of women: young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, single, orphaned. Lahu ke Do Rang is about two brothers finding each other and avenging their father. So that is where all of the women are: the 1970s.