the movie is really about choices. in the oppressed state of affairs as seen in fire and where good women had to be obedient and do what was correct in the eyes of tradition and there seemed few options for radha and sita. however and granted that it was not their only option. what is life without desire and radha questions ashok. yes and it true that life provides us with a number of options but how many we can take depends on a number of external factors. when your world is confined to a small indian household and being a dutiful daughter in law to a silent but observant still powerful matriarch and a dutiful wife of 13 years to a man who has taken a vow of celibacy due to your not being able to have a child and a man who only wants you lying next to him to prove his strength in eliminating his desires. i felt the ladies had little choice but to find solace in each other company. i guess the fact that so many women applauded ms mehta work and was because it provided them with an option to think for themselves. an option to do what was perhaps unacceptable. the lesbian scenes i felt was merely to put that point across. every scene in the movie from the first at the taj mahal to the last at the mosque and is etched in my mind. how frustrating to be a prisoner of your feelings and desires. to feel that you had to forgo the human touch to be a dutiful wife just because it is expected of you. to have to suppress any desire you might have and to crave for the human touch. what then is the meaning of our existence one wonders. in the scene where sita is crying alone in the room and radha comes in to comfort her and their lips accidentally brush against each others and it awakens a feeling in them. something they have both been deprived of. bravo to ms mehta in translating her vision so clearly. i especially like the flashbacks to the young radha trying to ee for the ocean. it is a metaphor for freedom. freedom to choose and freedom to transport ourselves to places we would normally be unable to reach. in those scenes and it is gently told to us that her sense of duty has also been passed down from her mother who i assume lives within the rich indian traditions of duty in marriage. the movie is beautifully filmed and enhanced by the musical score by a. r. rahman. since the film and i have become ardent fans of the two lead actresses and the director. i look forward to more of ms deepa future productions. 
the movie is really about choices. in the oppressed state of affairs as seen in fire and where good women had to be obedient and do what was correct in the eyes of tradition and there seemed few options for radha and sita. however and granted that it was not their only option. what is life without desire and radha questions ashok. yes and it true that life provides us with a number of options but how many we can take depends on a number of external factors. when your world is confined to a small indian household and being a dutiful daughter in law to a silent but observant still powerful matriarch and a dutiful wife of 13 years to a man who has taken a vow of celibacy due to your not being able to have a child and a man who only wants you lying next to him to prove his strength in eliminating his desires. i felt the ladies had little choice but to find solace in each other company. i guess the fact that so many women applauded ms mehta work and was because it provided them with an option to think for themselves. an option to do what was perhaps unacceptable. the lesbian scenes i felt was merely to put that point across. every scene in the movie from the first at the taj mahal to the last at the mosque and is etched in my mind. how frustrating to be a prisoner of your feelings and desires. to feel that you had to forgo the human touch to be a dutiful wife just because it is expected of you. to have to suppress any desire you might have and to crave for the human touch. what then is the meaning of our existence one wonders. in the scene where sita is crying alone in the room and radha comes in to comfort her and their lips accidentally brush against each others and it awakens a feeling in them. something they have both been deprived of. bravo to ms mehta in translating her vision so clearly. i especially like the flashbacks to the young radha trying to ee for the ocean. it is a metaphor for freedom. freedom to choose and freedom to transport ourselves to places we would normally be unable to reach. in those scenes and it is gently told to us that her sense of duty has also been passed down from her mother who i assume lives within the rich indian traditions of duty in marriage. the movie is beautifully filmed and enhanced by the musical score by a. r. rahman. since the film and i have become ardent fans of the two lead actresses and the director. i look forward to more of ms deepa future productions. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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