Log Kya Kahenge

Log Kya Kahenge What Will People Think is a 1983 Indian Bollywood film produced and directed by B. R. Ishara. It stars Shabana Azmi, Shatrughan Sinha and Sanjeev Kumar in pivotal roles and also features Navin Nischol. The title of the film, Log Kya Kahenge, is documented as a common stigma facing women in Indian society who challenge prearranged marriages and are expected to behave in a certain manner. The film deals with themes of murder and adultery.

The name Log Kya Kahenge What will People Think stems from a common Indian yardstick and social stigma against women who may challenge social norms of marriage and other expected forms of behaviour, a stressinducing expectation surrounding women and arranged marriages. One author said In our sheltered Indian middle class homes, for every woman there is an unconsciously used Indian yardstick called, log kya kahenge.The film was not amongst the blockbusters of 19823 and neither is it regarded today as a classic of Hindi cinema, remaining largely forgotten. However, the film draws upon the concept of women and challenging society and is therefore remarkable for the social situation of the era. The film gained some notoriety for the scene in which Shabana Azmi throttles her husbands son to prevent him from informing her husband of her affair with another man, and shocked viewers in India. Shabana herself said lightheartedly of the scene, I remember seeing that completely evil look on my face... and I was shocked by it. Was I capable of such evil? The Hindustan Times cited the scene amongst Hindi cinemas bestknown and bestloved motheroriented moments of magic on the screen. The Women of South Asian Descent Collective highlights the theme of divine justice in the film, saying, In Log Kya Kahenge, the heroine takes the ultimate step in asserting her right to choose her spouse she murders the husband forced on her. Consequently, she is punished not only by the law of the land but by divine justice she becomes insane. ........

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