Matrubhoomi

To begin with, I had earlier written this article keeping in minds two things, one was my emotion and the other the topic, but I forgot the most important rule of writing, I didn’t keep the reader in mind. So now I am editing my post and making it simpler to understand and also to absorb.

Feminism, this ideology is not in vain.. The female-male sex ratio is diminishing day by day. In India the situation is aggrivated thanks to the age old customs and beliefs. The female child in India is being aborted, killed and drowned in milk amidst prayers and hopes for the male child.

The movie Matrubhoomi, is a movie which I saw recently at home with my mother.
Well, in this movie, although the scenario was very bleak, the situation was that of a village, normal people who have no females left in their communities. There are cross dressers for the entertainment of men, and there are young boys to do the household. There is no love, sensitivity and no caring in the community. One man however, finds a women, she is the daughter of a man who has protected and taken care of the child till she has blossomed like a flower into a beautiful person. After she is spotted and tracked. the richest man in the village goes to meet her in order to get her married off to his eldest son. The father however refuses the proposal citing reasons that the eldest seemed too harsh for the girl, the father came up with another proposal that she should be wedded to all the five brothers.

The scenario is similar to what happens with the Pandavas. Appropriately, she is married and taken to their house. The first night while everyone's wondering who is going to sleep with her, they decide to keep days on which they will spend the night with her. The father of the sons, in his anger, and in his desperation, makes a plea or rather an order for satisfying his desires. He reasons that he has lived without sex for so many years, that it is unfair for them to enjoy it while he remains deprieved. The sons having no choice, agree. By the end of the week, the girl is tired having serviced the five sons and the father in law. while all the men just go inside the room to bang her and sleep, the youngest and the gentlest, talks to her, makes her open up, and in other words indulges in foreplay thus allowing her to breathe easier and live rather than just exist. seeing his soul and his heart, she begins to love him deeply and enjoys with him while she can. The brothers utterly jealous of this fact have him killed.

Post his death, the situation worsens and all doors to her happiness are shut forever. She is locked up in the stable because of her misconduct although the men ensure they sleep with her regularly. One of these days she becomes pregnant, not knowing how to deal with it, she remains the way she has been kept. the young boy in the house however helps her in her condition and allows her to survive the torture. amidst this scenario there is a raging debate about the father of the child. while her stay at the stable, a villager had forced himself onto her, and this persons putting the onus on another villager leads a protest stating that the villager is the father and hence the girl should be given to them. the father of the sons, in his rage, picks up the gun and begins to shoot the villagers down, this sparks off a battle and it continues till everyone is killed.

the only remaining surviver is the women, with her child, another girl...

though a very shocking movie, it has a tremendous power to make one sit up and think.

The male to female sex ratio in India is diminishing by the day, its down to 833 females for 1000 males, the day is not far when we have no women left. Sit up and think about it. Don’t have to be a feminist always, just be human..