Indian Movie Shows Realistic Good Girls :
**extreme archetypes alert!!
Ek Villain, CHARACTERS;
RAKESH submissive guy is a murderer
SULLU "he brought me fake jewellery! the audacity!" form of good girl
AISHA do gooder angry bird, with a fatal disease
GURU alpha who needs good woman, or anyone
NAMELESS STRIPPER
RAKESH'S FRIEND, an animal
This movie is my favorite of all times. Not only thrilling, it also shows different sides to the bad boy x good girl dynamic, and portrays realistic development between characters.
Guru and Rakesh are both brooding leads, they have traumatic past, they kill, most important of all — they've the well groomed mysterious man aura. Guru is your typical fighter boy from an infamous gang who helps Aisha fulfilling her last wishes, falls in love, leaves the gang, she meets Rakesh, he kills her. The end.
But wait there's more! Rakesh x Sullu dynamic.
They're married, have a kid, live a simple middle class life.
1. She cares way too much about society:
He's not wealthy... She probably married him for love. In the character intro, she's on the verge of kicking him out permanently because he's the most careless, irresponsible, poorest, useless kind of man. She's too good for him. Later, he tells himself the same thing. I'd have said she's abusive, except it's technically true — she's the all rounder kind of wife while he repairs landline and kills any woman who dares to trigger him. Definitely she's too good for him, we stan girl.
In fact, their lack of romance shows the only reason she hasn't divorced him is she cares too much about their kid, and the society... Divorce is taboo.
2. He never cheats :
His friend is a typical guy, more so a rotten scum who says they need to redefine who's the man of the house — take the power back by hitting her, by cheating. Crappiest solution ever, but Rakesh is tired of verbal humiliation of class and by women so... He becomes a serial killer.
Through displacement, he takes out his anger on every woman clawing his path. Every lady who can't mind her own business, Rakesh teaches her a lesson. Once again, not a solid solution but I admire his character as despite Sullu's conflicts with him, he never looks around — he never wants to cheat. She's still his one true love. That's every woman's dream, seriously.
I know a lot of people in his place would have slept around with the excuse "I'm dissatisfied with my partner so". For that, Rakesh gets 10/10.
Even in his last moments, when Guru is trying to kill him, Rakesh feels happy that he can now pin all the murders on him, and he'd always be the martyr in the eyes of his wife. In his twisted ways, he loves her very much. Even Sullu in interview tells him that she loves him.
3. Rakesh relates to stripper on emotional level :
Rakesh meets a stripper (more like a bar dancer, but the fans say she was a stripper). His friend takes him to a gateway trip and Rakesh only agrees because the police is reaching him, and his wife's new jewelry box is full of feminine items, murder souvenirs. Stupid? Very.
Escape plan is all good until he sees her, singing a melancholic song about herself. That's when it dawns on us they're both broken and have much more in common Rakesh and Sullu would ever have. Bad boy x bad girl would make more sense, actually.
The fact that they do duet but never interact or get together speaks a lot. First time, he doesn't want to kill a woman, first time he feels something other than shame and anger towards them. Seeing her, he actually experiences remorse for his actions aka the killings. Just for a few minutes, he isn't angry and sadistic, he's sad. And vulnerable.
They go separate ways, with Rakesh playing one last time his stupid mind games with his arch nemesis, Guru.
Anyways, this cracks a few myths :
1. Bad girls are not the only likely to be more problematic, as all his victims have humiliated him more than necessary and were good, average women. Especially his boss, she should get an award for being so hateful.
2. Opposites may attract, but only like minded people have deeper connection.
3. We all have our drug of choice. For Sullu, it was her materialism. And Rakesh kept his love alive by killing others, a stress killer. I really liked how realistic her character is — good girl's value are not just limited to "I can't have premarital sex" or "I've never had a drink"... It goes beyond, in both good and bad ways.
Lastly, if you have a bad partner, divorce them cause your child's paying for your questionable choices either way.
PS. Not watched the movie yet? Watch it, and comment later!
PS 2 : both good girls die, spoiler alert!
Most Helpful Opinions