Daayraa (1996)
Directed by Amol
Palekar this film stars Nirmal Pandey, Sonali Kulkarni, Neena
Kulkarni and Haidar Ali. The day before her wedding a young woman is
kidnapped and raped then travels with a transvestite.
While not perfect this
is a surprisingly liberal look at issues of sex, gender roles and
transsexual identities. The story follows the journey of a young
woman from being closed minded to having much more open views. Not
all of the musical interludes were to my taste and while I gather at
least one was supposed to be a parody of the traditional Bollywood
style it went over my head.
4/5
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