‘That girl in yellow boots’ seems to be quite good. Don’t know about the movie but the name itself is very cool. I searched for Friday night tickets but couldn’t find any as all the shows were packed to full strength. And then comes the suggestion by Jyoti ‘BOL’, Neiha and Vicky agreed to it. I didn’t want to see such intense movie as it seems from the trailers but they won by 3:1 votes.
BOL is a Lollywood movie starring Humaima Malik and Atif Aslam written, directed and produced by Shoib Mansoor. From the trailers of the movie I thought it would be regarding female foeticide or about women’s condition in Pakistan. But the plot of the movie starts differing from what I thought at the mere beginning only.
I didn’t like the movie much but only its start and climax. The start of the movie is very catching. Zainub (Humaima Malik) was sentenced to death for a murder charge and she narrated her story before she was hung. Initially it seems about the bad financial condition of a family which have several girl children only and the father of the lead still continue pushing her wife for a baby boy. Then Zainub’s mother gave birth to a hermaphrodite (Shemale) child and rest one hour of the movie reels around him. Which I think is bit too elongated and that made the movie very slow. In actual movie starts after interval when Zunaib’s father kills his hermaphrodite son. Then the story unfolds through different layers and tells about the bad condition of women in extremist Pakistani families.
Zainub is the only one who raises her voice against all the ill doings of her father throughout the movie and at the end she kills her father to save a girl child being murdered by him.
The only thing I liked about the movie is its climax. Zainub’s last wish was to address the media before being hanged which was approved by the President. There she narrates this entire story and tells that she took revenge from her father for giving birth to her. She asks the world “Sirf marna hi jurm kyun hai? Paida karna kyun nahi????” ‘Why only killing someone is a crime and why not giving birth’ she further asks why having legitimate children and then making their life hell is not wrong? Why those parents give birth to children if couldn’t adequately feed them. She argues that giving birth to children one can’t afford should also be considered as a crime.
Zainub was hung till death.
But the question still lived on ‘Sirf maarna hi jurm kyun hai.... Paida karna kyun nahi ??????’
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