Here, too, Yadav treats it as more of a strange “condition” – one that the elders take upon themselves to decode so that there is two-way communication. The stereotypes aren’t entirely misguided, but the older cartel of storytellers needs to understand that there is a marked difference between depicting modernity from a traditional perspective and interpreting modernity as a legitimate sociocultural truth. With Rajma Chawal, Leena Yadav ( Parched, Teen Patti, Shabd) joins the long list of antiquated Indian filmmakers whose patronizing gaze of the country’s “youth” is limited to promiscuity, bad haircuts, Sufi rock bands and, you guessed it, social media mechanisms. But it’s one thing to romanticize their ignorance on screen it’s another when the makers themselves are those ignorant folks. It’s sweet to see them employ a newer language to dilute the generational discord. I get that it’s cute to watch old-school folks embrace the fast ways of the digital world. On an unrelated note, debutant Anirudh Tanwar’s father is one of the film’s producers. Basically, he pays a girl to love his son. While you mull over that, let me also mention that Mathur, at some point after realizing that the real girl (Amyra Dastur) is in on his grand idea, actually bribes her to keep the scam going. To further contextualize this twisted premise: the man’s wife just died, and the boy is single. I repeat: he forges a heterosexual (platonic, sure – in Delhi) bond with his own son by using the defunct profile of a ‘homely’ girl. Mathur – a widower who, in an effort to improve his equation with his troubled son (Anirudh Tanwar, as Kabir), thinks it is a fine idea to catfish the boy by chatting with him under the fake Facebook identity of an attractive young lady.
RAJMA CHAWAL MOVIE MOVIE
It’s unfortunate that Rishi Kapoor, otherwise the gold standard of middle-class North Indian movie patriarchs, is the man behind this role.
Rajma Chawal, if viewed beyond its desperation to fit in like a drunken uncle at a Miley Cyrus concert, is about the creepiest father in the history of bad fathers.
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