With Annu Kapoor, Manoj Joshi, and Paritosh Tripathi in the lead roles, “Hamare Baarah” has been the talk of the town ever since its announcement. Fans are clamoring for more after the teaser was recently released, raising the anticipation to a fever pitch.
However, Karnataka government has banned the screening of the Hindi movie for at least two weeks after some Muslim organisations raised concerns. In an order, the government stalled the release of the film and its trailer in electronic media, social media, film theatres, private television channels or other media.
one of the film's actresses Ankita Dwivedi spoke about why the plot has collectively triggered the nation, receiving abuses and death threats, and and what exactly the film is about.
So Hamare Baarah is a story set in Lucknow, and it's about a woman named Rukhsaar, which I'm named. And she got married to Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan, which is played by Annu Kapoor. And she was very young. At the age of 18, she got married to this man who's three decades older than her. And for, like, some years now, she has born four children. And now, again, she's pregnant with her 5th child, which now puts her life at risk. So now, the story revolves around how the suffering of this woman is taken care by her family, how she struggles through it. The story has these 12 characters where there's only 1 breadwinner in the family who's the father and 11 other people who are unemployed. So it kind of becomes a vicious cycle where, since he's not sending them to school and not giving them education, they're not educated. They can't get jobs. So they're dependent on the father, and the father is earning a very meagre like, very little wage. And hence, it kind of revolves around the family drama where all of this is happening. Regarding the trigger, I'm not sure why everyone is triggered by it because they haven't seen the film yet. If you actually watch the film, you would realize that it is about a woman's journey, the sheer will power of women. It is also about motherhood, if you say. Like how usually women are expected to cater to the family, and they do cater to the family most of the time. The mothers, they all discharge their duties towards their children and the family. And because a woman's work is not quantifiable it's all straight taken for granted. So a lot of issues regarding that is also covered in movie.
Definitely. The ban was very unexpected because the High Court also has given it a green flag. So I don't think something bigger could have been done about it if the High Court has given it a green flag. But we're still hopeful that, after the film is released and people watch it and reviews pour down, the ban would be lifted.
See, I believe that freedom of speech and, freedom to speak your mind and artistic freedom is every person's right. It, of course, should be put in a very sensible way because you cannot downright, let's say, if I talk about myself, after the teaser was released, we got the team and I got a lot of threats and abuses and curses. So when I was facing that issue, I realized that there can always be a kinder way to put your thought forward. If you don't like something that has been put out, there's a way to approach it. So I think, of course, sensibility is very important, and, we're not here to hurt anyone. We are just here to put out what we feel, in a very sensible way.
This prep was very, very interesting because, I had to play a woman who's, like, 10 to 15 years older than me, and, of course, she's going through pregnancy. So for the pregnancy part, I went to my mother. I talked to her. Like, what did you go through while you were pregnant. And very luckily, my, cook, she comes to my house, and she was pregnant at that time. So I had to ask her, like, how does it feel when you're also working a year in the 7th month of your pregnancy. And she told me that it it's very hard because the woman is going through mood swings. The body is also giving up a lot of times, and yet you have to keep on working. You work at the other. You work at the person you're employed at, and then you have to go back and cook for your husband. And for also the journey that Rukhsaar went through, I went to a lot of women in Lucknow and in Mumbai who had a very similar family background and issues that my character had. So when I was talking to them, I realized that it's not just Rukhsaar or this character who's the only character in this movie that is facing what she is going through.
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