Sunday, March 23, 2014

Queen

Even before you start reading it, don't waste time reading my review. Go watch the movie!

I have heard a lot of good reviews about this movie. I dragged my hubby along with me. I am glad we went to the movie.

Queen is the story of a simple girl, Rani who is transformed into a confident woman. Kangana Ranaut has lived in Rani's character. The movie begins with Rani's marriage preparations. Apt to Cafe Coffee Day's caption, 'A lot can happen over coffee', her fiance breaks up with her over coffee, just one day before the marriage. Rani will be depressed. Her grandmother advises her to be strong, she could find her life partner in the most unexpected places. Rani decides not to cancel her honeymoon trip. She goes to Paris and Amsterdam by herself. Rani has never traveled alone in Rajouri, her younger brother always accompanied her, now she is off to explore the world. She makes good friends in her travel. She makes a friend in Paris and chaste Rani will be forced to share a room with three men, a French, a Japanese and European. In the end, she discovers the freedom women have outside her home and her hometown, Rajouri.

There are a few subtleties in the movie which touched my heart. At the coffee shop, when Rani pleads her fiance to reconsider the marriage, he refuses to accept her request saying that he has grown up by staying in London and she is no longer suitable to him. After Rani leaves crying, he nonchalantly brushes off the dried up Mehendi that fell from Rani's hands. Brushing off that Mehendi was a scene, which was so subtle, yet conveyed a deep meaning. Her first experience in French restaurant, where she unknowingly orders a fish's head. As she struggles to eat it, the eye pops out, she runs away screaming and pukes. The moment when Rani discovers her freedom to belch and dance. Rani goes to a bar in Paris, she gets drunk and dances on top of the bar for a hindi song. All the women beside her throw their jackets. Rani removes her sweater, but she does'nt throw it away. She carefully places it in her bag and starts dancing. After that she goes out and dances in front of a Parisian taxi driver. The driver tries to ignore her by looking at his phone. The drunk Rani belches repeatedly in the taxi, telling to her friend, 'Women are not allowed to belch'.

It is a great movie! I have a new found respect for Kangana Ranaut who pulled off the character so well.



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