Lajja - shame

Movie
German title	Lajja - shame
Original title	Lajja
Country of production	India
original language	Hindi , English
Publishing year	2001
length	202 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Rajkumar Santoshi
script	Rajkumar Santoshi ; Ranjit Kapoor
production	Rajkumar Santoshi
music	Anu Malik ; Ilayaraja
camera	Madhu Ambat
cut	VN Mayekar
occupation
	Manisha Koirala : Vaidehi; Madhuri Dixit : Janki; Rekha : Ramdulhari; Mahima Chaudhry : Maithili; Jackie Shroff : Raghu; Anil Kapoor : Raju; Ajay Devgan : Bulwa; Samir Soni : Manish; Suresh Oberoi : Raghu's father; Gulshan Grover : Virender; Tinnu Anand : Purshotam; Farida Jalal : Mrs. Saroj; Johnny Lever : Fakhruddin; Danny Denzongpa : Gajendra; Sonali Bendre : guest appearance; Urmila Matondkar : guest appearance;

Lajja - Schande (alternative title: Lajja - Die Schande , original title: Hindi लज्जा , Lajja , translated: Schande ) is a Hindi film that criticizes the social position of Indian women in a male-dominated society.

action

Vaidehi is Indian and lives in New York with her husband Raghu . Her unhappy marriage is marked by her husband's beatings and cheating. At some point it all becomes too much for her and she flies to her homeland in India . There she learns of Raghu's accident, who from now on remains impotent. She, on the other hand, carries his child in her womb - the only one he will ever have. That's why he wants to get it and drives Vaidehi to flee.

Vaidehi ends up in a number of places in India where women are fighting for their rights. She gets to know the fate of three women who also suffer humility, violence and oppression on the part of men:

Maithili, the bride, who is afraid of being left standing at the altar because her father cannot pay the excessive dowry demands.
Janki, a radical feminist who just wants to live her life and not one that is determined by others.
Ramdulhari, the healer of a small village terrorized by women hating brothers.

background

Director Rajkumar got the idea for the film after reading an article in a newspaper about an incident in a village near Kanpur in northern India in July 1999. Here a low-caste woman was raped and burned to death in her home. Your crime? Her son was related to a higher caste girl. "At first I thought," says Santoshi, "that these things only happen in villages. Then I realized that they are universal. Whether it is a village or a large city in India or New York, women everywhere have to fight for their rights. " So Santoshi puts his film under the big motto: "When the tears stop, a revolution begins". Predictably, the film sparked criticism in India. First, a Chennai court tried to stop its publication on the pretext of repaying outstanding loans. Then workers of the Hindu party "BJP" in Bhopal protested against "offensive dialogues" against Hindu gods and goddesses.

music

song	Singer
Aa Hi Jaiye	Anuradha Sriram
Badi Mushkil	Alka Yagnik
Jiyo Jiyo	KK
Kaliyug Ki Sita	Anuradha Paudwal
Kaun Dagar	Lata Mangeshkar
Mujhe Saajan Ke Ghar Jana Hai 1	Alka Yagnik & Richa Sharma
Mujhe Saajan Ke Ghar Jana Hai 2	Alka Yagnik & Richa Sharma