#sita ramam mrunal thakur

[amnmich]

sita ramam still hurts, nice to know

[thecrazyinktrovert]

God took an extra day to create THEM. Fave characters Ft. Tollywood

1) Mrunal Thakur as Sita Mahalakshmi from Sita Ramam (2022)

2) Sai Pallavi as Rosie from Shyam Singha Roy (2021)

3) Anushka Shetty as Devasena in Baahubali 2 (2017)

More suggestions welcome in comments/reblogs!!

[grishaxverse]

best movie of 2022

[vennilave]

@kdramaspace + @userdramas YEAR IN REVIEW 2022 | Stocking Stuffers: tag a friend or someone you’re thankful for/admire and create a gift of some of their favorite shows/characters/ships/etc of 2022

Sita Ramam (2022) dir. Hanu Raghavapudi | for @foolgobi65 <3

[thirdeen]

Mrunal Thakur on the set of Sita Ramam

[browngurl99]

Romance was invented in 1964, when Lieutenant Ram recieved a love letter from his wife, Sita Mahalakshmi

[mayakrish08]

SITA RAMAM!! 😭❤️😭❤️

When you introduce your bestie to this masterpiece, this is what happens

[aurum-rays]

When you rewatch most childhood movies, the cult classics, the nostalgia rides, I realize how sexist and problematic they were and I was secretly hoping Veer Zaara wasn't one of them(I watched it when I was like 10 so I don't remember). This movie surprised me.

Veer Zaara features strong, resilient female characters. Be it our protagonist Zaara played by Preity Zinta or the catalysts of the love story Saamiya (Rani Mukherjee) and Shabbo (Divya Dutta) or even Zaara’s mother (Kirron Kher) and her Bebe (Zohra Sehgal).

Zaara Hayaat Khan is a feminist, one who is against the societal norms laid for a woman. It's refreshing to see this in her introductory song "Hum to bhai jese hai wese rahengey" sung beautifully by Lata ji, but as this 3 hour musical drama progresses it gets disappointing to see Zaara whittle herself away to the same norms she was against in the first place.

Everyone around her constantly tells her it's her responsibility to be a good wife and a good mother and to guard the respect of their families. Zaara crosses the border to fulfill a final wish of her ‘BeBe’(grandmother) all by herself.

In the midst of a rescue operation, she demands her things be lifted off along with her all while hanging on to an Air Force professional in his uniform.

She pushes the crowded men away and speaks with authority "I have a ticket and I need to get on this bus". In all these instances Zaara is scared yet heroic. She phones her mother and tells her that all her life she didn't do anything and probably won't in the future too and will probably end up being just like her mother - a good wife and a good mother, so she wants to do this one thing so she can respect herself. This is what irked me. I understand she's from an orthodox family but she can still have dreams and ambitions. From the start of the movie, she is portrayed as a rebel, one who doesn't comply with societal norms and laughs in the face of stereotypes. I can only imagine how curious she would have been as a child. That alone is enough to give her some dreams.

She fearlessly tells Amitabh's character what he is doing is unfair to the girls. If I went to someone’s house for a day especially someone I barely knew I wouldn't even dare to question their acts. Zaara does and she makes him spellbound. She doesn't go “I'm just here for one day so I’ll just mind my own business and leave”. She questions the injustice. "Imagine what girls could do if they were given the right education. Some of them might even surpass Veer".

I loved Zaara in all these scenes. She fearlessly stands up against mistreatment and calls them out no matter who the other person is. All this makes you root for her until it doesn't.

In a scene where Saamiya visits Veer's (Shahrukh Khan) hometown and finds Zaara there, she says to Shabbo "Yeh kis sadi ke log hai… ?" (transl. “Which century are these people from?”)

That's exactly how I felt too. “Kon hai ye log? Kahan se aate hai?”( transl. Who are these people? Where do they come from?) Spending their whole lives in the name of the person they never got to be with. Sacrificing everything and working to fulfill someone else’s dream. Zaara has always been that kind of person. She crosses borders to fulfill her bebe's wish and gives all her life to fulfill Veer and his Tau’s wish. She keeps doing everything for others. She spends her life making others’ dreams come true. She lives her life in the memory of her lover. This also reminded me of Sita aka Princess Noor Jahan from Sitaramam (also maybe Madarasipattinam's Amy).

If Saamiya saw these women she'd again say "Kon hai ye log?"

Even after decades of releasing love stories on-screen this "sacrificing" trope hasn't changed and remains to be a classic which I am not a big fan of. Why do these characters not have any characterization of their own? (Zaara) even if they do, it all changes when a man comes into her life (Sita/Noor Jahan). Ultimately the heroin has to either die or spend her whole life in the memory of her Romeo. (Remember what Mr. Dashwood says to Jo in 2019’s Little Women?)

Maybe I don't understand love stories. Maybe I don't understand love? I don't know. But I think in real life none of us are that insane to write our whole life in someone else’s name and live and breathe just reminiscing our lost lovers, at least I am not. Maybe that is why these movies will remain classics because they are too insane to happen in real life.

[lover-also-fighter-also]

Still Im living in this music ❤️❤️.

[maraudersbitchesassemble]

Love. Something which exudes joy, gives us a sense of belonging and comfort and yet, more often than not, ends in tragedy. There are too many love stories where in the end, the lovers are seperated, either because of society or because of death. And when we read them or hear about them, we truly wish from the bottom of our hearts for them to be reunited, for them to get their happily ever after.

But even though I do wish for it to have ended differently, I also believe, that the tradgedy is somehow a part of their story, that if the tradgedy were to be prevented, it won't be their story anymore. Like this one right here, of Sitamahalakshmi and Lt. Ram. Everyone who knows of their story, did cry, atleast a little, toward the end. All those who watched this magnificent story unfold, wished for both of them to be together in the end. And really, I did wish for it too.

But if Lt. Ram did what he would have been forced to do in order to get away and go back to Sita, the Ram that returned to her wouldn't have been himself anymore, he wouldn't be the same Ram that Sita loved, he would be diffrent, and i think that might've been the real tradgedy.

So, though this part of the story made us bawl our eyes out, it also made the story hold more meaning and that made it more beautiful than it already was. The whole story was beautiful and so was this part. It truly showed us the beauty of pain which we often forget.

Sita writing letters to Ram was beautiful, Ram falling in love with her was beautiful, Them getting to know eachother and falling in love was beautiful, Sita fighting for her love was beautiful, them being together was beautiful

But

Sita going through a turmoil when both were visiting Ram's family was beautiful too, Ram going back without being able to meet Sita was beautiful too, Ram going for the mission and the heartbreak it caused them was beautiful too, Sita waiting for 20 years for Ram to come backe was beautiful too, and finally, Ram's death, it was, in its own twisted sense, beautiful too.

For Ram knew what he was doing was right, Ram also knew Sita would want him to do what he did had she known what was going on. Sita knew that no matter what happened, Ram certainly would come back to her, and he did, in the form of the letter, which eventually helped Sita clear his name, thus making him live forever. Their love lived forever. And I'm sure, in a universe where they would've been real, the story of their love would have lived on even after Sita's death. People would say, "Princess Noor Jahaan and Lt. Ram, the love story that was painful and yet beautiful"

Also note: the moodboard it made by me. My first time making a moodboard.

[iseeblossom]

"Sita Ramam is a love story and it’s one of those very rare films made today where it takes you to the world that existed before. Love in those days was more eternal, unlike now."

[secretandpurplememories]

I want the whole wardrobe of Sita from Sita Ramam now only that can fix me from the pain this movie gave me

[thecrazyinktrovert]

Happy 1 year anniversary to this masterpiece!! We laughed with Sita, blushed as Ram flirted, danced with them in the songs and cried at the end.... The cinematography, acting, soundtrack, just perfect!! Sita and Ram forever 🦋♥️

[theheartbreakprince15]

Sita Ramam (2022)

I knew how it was gonna end but watching it happen was another thing. It’s ironic how a story started through words exchanged through letters ends with the same. A movie that will wrench your heart especially with the epic climax. Team RamxNoorJahan all the way

[cinematic-explorations]

(via Sita Ramam — a legendary tale of divine love that showcases the enormous capabilities of Indian filmmakers | by Surabhi Mathur | TheFilmProfileBlog | Medium)

[buddyyboy]

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