BIG SPOILERS AHEAD
'Dil Kya Kare' is alright. And that is pretty much all it is. The story is about - BIG SPOILERS - a married couple (Ajay and Mahima) who have a young daughter they adopted when she was a baby. Out of the blue her birth mother Kajol shows up. Mahima takes her in and lets her spend time with her daughter. I found this very commendable of her character as I would have been majorly threatened and probably wouldn't have let Kajol stay in my house for so long. As the story unfolds we discorver that Ajay had a one night stand with Kajol and he's the real father of his daughter. When Mahima finds out she flies into a blind rage and walks out on the lot of them.
What I found very disturbing in this movie is the way human emotions were portrayed. -BIG SPOILERS- Mahima wouldn't let her husband explain. Ajay wouldn't go over to Mahima begging for her forgiveness, but rather seemed to want a wife, a daughter and his former lover. His heartlessness especially shined through when he was willing to sacrifice his daughter to get his wife back. I mean, it says something when the adopted mother seems to care more for the child than the child's real father. And no-one seemed to care about the kid, not even Kajol who put her feelings first by expressing the desire to rip the kid from her family and surroundings. And as far as the kid is concerned, that was THE calmest reaction I have seen on film of a child who just found out her mother is not her mother.
All in all, I had expected more. The characters didn't seem real to me. They were... for lack of a better word... out of proportion.
**/5 stars
'Dil Kya Kare' is alright. And that is pretty much all it is. The story is about - BIG SPOILERS - a married couple (Ajay and Mahima) who have a young daughter they adopted when she was a baby. Out of the blue her birth mother Kajol shows up. Mahima takes her in and lets her spend time with her daughter. I found this very commendable of her character as I would have been majorly threatened and probably wouldn't have let Kajol stay in my house for so long. As the story unfolds we discorver that Ajay had a one night stand with Kajol and he's the real father of his daughter. When Mahima finds out she flies into a blind rage and walks out on the lot of them.
What I found very disturbing in this movie is the way human emotions were portrayed. -BIG SPOILERS- Mahima wouldn't let her husband explain. Ajay wouldn't go over to Mahima begging for her forgiveness, but rather seemed to want a wife, a daughter and his former lover. His heartlessness especially shined through when he was willing to sacrifice his daughter to get his wife back. I mean, it says something when the adopted mother seems to care more for the child than the child's real father. And no-one seemed to care about the kid, not even Kajol who put her feelings first by expressing the desire to rip the kid from her family and surroundings. And as far as the kid is concerned, that was THE calmest reaction I have seen on film of a child who just found out her mother is not her mother.
All in all, I had expected more. The characters didn't seem real to me. They were... for lack of a better word... out of proportion.
**/5 stars