Very best movie i ever watch

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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I am Hindu and after watching this movie, I was shocked to know that still there are places where we have Hindu extremists. I am so sad for the father of trainer of Durga vahini. On one end he is happy with her, to be a trainer and on the other end he wants her to marry a good guy and live a normal life. I don't understand why parents like him leave their children confused. He will definitely regret for the actions that his daughter will take. Apart from his daughter, he is spoiling the future of all other students there in Durga Vahini. Such institutes should be banned in India. How will we have peace and harmony in India, if our kids join such institutes and carry so much rage and violence inside for others.

I thought this was a fair attempt to explore India as she finds herself at a crossroads - should she embrace 21st century Western consumerism or should she regenerate her ancient Hindu roots which has withstood the test of time and years of foreign invasion and occupation?The documentary looked at the situation from the perspective of two women - one aspiring to be a beauty queen and the other wishing to dedicate her life to the Hindu movement.These two women were the polar opposites at two ends of a very large spectrum. I imagine most of India wishes to embrace the changes taking place, yet retain its culture and perhaps don't view them as mutually exclusive.What was very disappointing was that the film verged towards an anti-Hindu stance at times - it disproportionately focused on a handful of events to demonstrate a resurgence of right-wing Hindu nationalism. However the events were in response to extreme times in India - the first the killing of a Christian missionary was a response to the billions being pumped into India to prey on it's poor and illiterate population with a view to converting them to Christianity. The other was the riots in 2002, which was a direct response of 58 Hindus (women and children) being burnt alive on a train by a group of Muslims.There was a part which suggested Hindu extremists are potentially more dangerous that Muslm extremists - this is laughable given the amount of terror attacks that have been carried out in India by Islamists and also the fact that it is surrounded by two hostile Islamic nations, one of which (Pakistan) is funding Islamic terror groups to wage a proxy war on India. I don't know the figures but it is safe to say that more Indians have died at the hands of Islamic terror attacks than any Hindu ones (in recent history there has only been one terror attack linked to Hindus and that killed 4 people - whilst inexcusable, this is a drop in the ocean when compared to victims of Islamic terror in India .

So, I had my doubts about the content of this film. Nether the less I watched it. The movie stimulated many thoughts and emotions, it provided a very interesting look at the options and choices of the women of India.More than this though it displayed the human condition from extreme view points. The film re-enforcing the fact that as human being we tend to place judgements on situations and people without ever truly knowing the environmental conditions creating them.I highly recommend this film, what ever part of society one comes from this film has something to offer in opening the mind.

This movie talks about how there are two Indias,the rural India with conservative values and urban Indian with modern values,the documentary shows how parallel life runs ,depending on what kind of family you are born into.According to me both sides have good things & flaws,like for example,the traditional camps talk about patriotism and empowering women in their own way but also also about how women shouldn't have careers while the beauty pageant camp looks all modern and liberal but is again sexist and uses things like Botox & skin whitening which i think is shameful.But of course there is a third kind of Indian women ,women like me ,who were bought up to believe that you can do anything that a man can do,education & knowledge is power,that you should have your own income so that you can have financial stability,be independent,there are more women like me in India,I am a practicing Hindu,a Gandhian like most Indians,we believe in karma,tolerance & non violence.So this documentary gives you one view of India,it is not a comprehensive guide to India.