Re: Toilet - Ek Prem Katha In Hindi Download Hd
Alke Stilwell
When you book a ticket for a movie dealing with a social issue, you pretty much expect humour to have gone down the toilet. Thankfully, when the social issue is toilets, there is always potty humour to the rescue. And TEPK leverages this abundantly.
And did you know that many rural men think it is manly to go out for defecation, many women think it is their only time to gossip with their girl friends, and many people find a toilet too constricted when compared to the open air arena where they usually do their business with natural ventilation?
Loved the way you put it Mahima! I agree, that not many will understand the gravity of the situation since they never faced it! And a person like me who is not comfortable in sharing a toilet with my own husband, open field is the most preposterous idea! I am glad that Bollywood is addressing such issues finally!
Do stop by to read what I have to say when free! Here is a link -ek-prem-katha-my-views/
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The film highlights India's toilet problem, which is caused by its cultural and religious sentiments. In Indian rural areas, people still do not have this basic necessity, which frustrates women and which further leads to sexual harassment. It was reported that it is based on the true story of Anita Narre from Madhya Pradesh, who refused to go back to her husband Shivram's home because it had no toilet.[9][10]
On her first morning in Keshav's house, Jaya reluctantly goes to a field to defecate, but comes back agitated without defecating and complains about it to Keshav. Despite Keshav's repeated attempts to convince Jaya to give up her stubbornness about needing a toilet, Jaya remains steadfast. He makes a couple of temporary adjustments to solve the problem, first taking her to a neighbour's house which has a portable toilet for a bedridden elderly woman, and later in a train that has a seven-minute stop at the village railway station, without actually constructing a toilet in his house, but after a while, one day she gets locked up in the toilet and train departs the station and agitated and frustrated Jaya leaves Keshav and moves back to her parents' house.
After a futile attempt to convince his sarpanch and villagers to build toilets in the village, Keshav, with the help of Jaya, contacts the concerned regulatory authority and starts the construction of a toilet in his front yard. When the construction is finished, Keshav's father and the sarpanch arrange to demolish the toilet while Keshav is still asleep. But Keshav wakes up before the toilet is completely destroyed and protects it from complete demolition.
Jaya now files for a divorce in the local court citing the unavailability of a toilet in her husband's house as the primary reason for seeking a divorce. Due to its unique nature, the case receives much media attention. Politicians and the concerned government departments spring into action to hasten the construction of toilets in Keshav's village. But Keshav's father remains steadfast on his decision to not have a toilet in his house, until one day, his mother, while going out to defecate, falls on the doorstep, injures her hip and cries vehemently that she can't possibly walk to the fields to defecate, and that she must use the toilet that Keshav constructed in the front yard. After much reluctance, Keshav's father gives in and helps his mother to the toilet. He then realises that a toilet is indeed a critical requirement within a household.
On the day of the hearing of the divorce case of Keshav and Jaya, the judge gets an official notice from the Chief Minister's office urging the judge to not grant their divorce as the construction of toilets in their village shall be started the very next day. The couple comes out together happily. Keshav's father apologises to Jaya for his stubbornness. In the end credits, villagers are shown lining up to use mobile toilets outside their village while the construction of toilets throughout the village proceeds.
The film was written by Siddharth Singh and Garima Wahal, the writers of the 2013 Hindi film Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela. It shares some similarities with a true event in which 19-year-old Priyanka Bharti fled her husband's home in 2012[16] when there was no toilet.[17][18] In the film, before the end credits, Toilet mentions that it is based on the story of Anita Narre from Madhya Pradesh, who refused to go back to her husband Shivram's home because it had no toilet.[9][19]
The film will not only address an inherent hygiene problem in a lighter way, but also deal with myths that are set in stone since ages. Not having access to basic facilities like a toilet in rural India leads to many botherations, more so with women whose safety is ignored and compromised. So much so that, it is almost a torture for rural women; these women are teased, taunted and harassed while going out to relieve themselves. 'Toilet Ek Prem Katha' highlights this plight and throws light on the dark spots.
Presented before crores of Indians who watched this episode, the scene is actually a reality of how there is an attempt by many government officials and other Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) campaigners to force people to shun open defecation and resort to toilets.
In a brazen show of insensitivity, he asked the people in a village, attending a meeting organised to create awareness on toilets, to raise hands if they thought value of their wives was less than Rs.12,000, the amount provided by the government to the poor to construct a toilet. Few days back, again in Rajasthan, a Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) of the Bhilwara district issued an order to snap electricity connection of all households of a village if they failed to build toilets within 15 days. It was reported that only about 20 per cent of the villagers have built toilets and the district administration was finding it difficult to motivate the others. Even from among the ones who have built toilets, many are not using them either for defects in the structures or for behavioural problems.
A couple of years ago I was invited by an NGO in Gajapati district of Odisha to observe their ongoing awareness programme in a few villages where they have been trying to motivate villagers to build toilets and use them. While visiting families to know the effectiveness of the programme, I stumbled upon a Bramhin couple in their 60s and among the only three Bramhin (higher caste) families who had toilets but were not using it. They had their own reasons for not using the toilets.
They built the toilet with the government assistance by adding almost 50 per cent extra amount to add a bathroom to it. However, the toilet was used only when their grandchildren visit them. Initially they took up the toilet as a matter of pride because in the village highly divided on caste lines, the higher castes should not look backward than the lower ones. Some of the Dalits in the other hamlet were already planning to build toilets and hence they too wanted to have one. But the lady of the house could not use the toilet because, she said, she failed to defecate unless the grasses of open fields touched her body. The man, on the other hand, found the toilet inside the house insane because of the presence of the idols worshipped inside. There could be hundreds of reasons that might look funny and silly to the urban middle class Indians who are born with toilets at their homes, but these are stereotypes that are as ingrained in our society as many others that exist for ages.
The Supreme Court of India has just ruled in favour of Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right to all citizens. Defecation is a private act and about half of Indians conduct this private affair of theirs in public places.
Let them have the Right to Privacy there too as long as we have not been able to make all of them use toilets. I am all for the ambitious targets of SBA but let this be achieved in practically crafted and strategically implemented manners that take the people on board with love, care and compassion. Coercion is undemocratic, hence not for India!
The Bollywood star hopes that the story of Anita Narre, who shocked India by leaving her new husband because his home had no toilet, can inspire the country to tackle a sanitation crisis that blights the lives of millions
Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar are busy with the promotions of their movie Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. They are seen here during their London promotions. Akshay shared the picture on his Instagram account saying, Keshav aur Jaya united in London! All set to start @toiletthefilm promotions!Catch us LIVE on my Facebook at 3.45 pm IST today. @psbhumi #ToiletUKTakeOver."
Keshav, the protagonist was faced with a daunting challenge (absence of private toilets), one of its kind that never happened in his village. But he doesn't give up and gives his best to address the issue. Consider Keshav as the organization or professional and his wife as the client in this scenario. Following are the lessons we can take away from his efforts in this scenario (SPOILERS AHEAD):
Joker, directed by Raju Murugan, revolved around an eccentric villager Mannar Mannan who falls in love with a girl from a neighbouring village. However, the girl says that she will marry Mannan only if he gets a toilet built in his home. While the film goes on with several twists, turns and sub plots - the idea of a man building a toilet for his wife seemed to have hit a chord with the makers of Toilet - Ek Prem Katha.
It's the sort of meaningful cinema that pauses to linger on Sana Khan's cleavage, lust over Sunny Leone, jest about Hrithik Roshan's thumb detail, and where Mathura district's small-town fervour and conservatism fills the frames, yet characters talk Ray Ban and Syria and idle away on smartphones quite comfortable in their toilet-less existence.
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