Woh Lamhe

This is a movie based on the life of yesteryear actress Parveen Babi. A muslim Lady from Junagarh who made it big in the Bolly – Bully film Industry. Being a Muslim Lady we all used to wonder (during our childhood) that how come she exposes her body like that – whatever happened to the ‘Burkha’ clad Ladies that Muslims are so proud about !? We had the same thoughts for Zeenat Aman as well….

According to Muslim men – they keep their wives, sisters and daughters well protected and make them wear ‘burkhas’ to ward off evil eyes of  lusty men. But the inside story – in some Muslim families must be different – they must be abusing / exploiting them left , right and center – because its only when a woman faces such contradictory environment – that she becomes a rebel and does exactly what she has been asked not to do ! Kind of defying the contradictory world where she has been bred !

Anyways , I saw the movie from the point where a budding Director Aditya (Mahesh Bhatt in real life- played by Shiny Ahuja – although Mahesh is not 1/4th as good looking as Shiny) tells her in a party that each and every part of her body is sold and is for sale, she is leading an artificial life and she better have some natural sense in her as well. She was already a sad ‘sataayee hui’ woman – with a boyfriend who was a womanizer as well as her pimp and a mother who just wanted money – and she knew very well that her daughter used to earn money by showing her semi nude body as well as rendering sexual services to old haggard pot bellied Producers and Directors …but that didn’t matter to her mother at all – she was just interested in money !!

Thus an already sad but sensitive inside Sana Azmi lost her temper since Aditya touched the most sensitive part of her life – the fact that she was leading the life of a Prostitute – so when he asks her to be natural – she takes off her panties in front of camera and media men – and threw it at him ! more scandal was created. Her BF cum pimp takes her home and beats her black and blue.

Later Aditya and Sana become pally and he makes her do a de-glamorized role and she performs very well there as well. More fame. But soon she becomes a schizophrenic patient and it became quite impossible to keep her under control. Her mother and BF decide to give her electric shocks to cure her. Aditya in the mean time had developed a weakness for her – thus he takes her to his farm house away from her gory world. He is unable to cure her and she leaves him and goes. Years later, he gets to meet her at her death bed. She led a lonesome life and had a very sad death !

PS : Its really amazing to see the true picture of an actress so admired during the early 1980’s. She had acted with ace actors including Amitabh Bachchan ! Once I had read in an interview in a film magazine where she claimed that she even had an affair with Amitabh as well. This article had come out after Parveen had taken to drugs and was already a schizophrenic patient. I saw her snaps – a slim trim Parveen turned into a fat, round mentally dis-balanced woman. I was really very fond of her. Poor thing must have been a very sensitive soul thus could not accept the artificial lives that others led – lead in the film Industry. Frankly speaking you got to have the elements of a ‘proper whore’ in you or else you cannot become an actress – I mean they are made to  jump on, hug, kiss just anyone and everyone on screen …and dance semi nude to lure the frustrated masses – yuk! what a terrible life it is !!

And think of it – people keep large – huge life size posters of such sad, depressed females posed semi nude….and we all also know that every object vibrates with  a certain frequency – eg. Feng Shui symbols emitting vibrations – good /bad/ugly – thus such snaps must be also carrying vibrations of such ‘whorish’ women. The vibrations certainly must be sad and depressing – they have pimps as their BFs, lead an artificial life and sad and frustrated to the core in actual life, conniving and shrewd ..and what not. So little wonder that most people are also suffering from such things – who knows what’s the actual source of such dis balanced and disturbed psychologies seen among the common mass…..

May her soul rest in peace – she took up on her the responsibility to show the World that being beautiful, glamorous and famous does not guarantee a happy and blissful life …like so many advertisements are trying to scream forth in our ears all the time …like fairness crème and become ‘tall’ slippers….increase personality by correct make up and flaunt your vital statistics …Parveen had it all- showed it all – made money by doing all – but she led a terribly sad life ……. in spite of having it all !!There is a lot more to life folks..much more….