Padmaavat - The Underlying Messages (Padmaavat Movie Review)

If you're not a 'deep' kind of person,

you might think this movie doesn't make sense,

but I will enlighten you with my opinion, 

so keep reading this!

If you haven't read the tale

that inspired this movie,

you might wanna read this first:

Wikipedia : Padmavat

While the storyline isn't as exactly as what's told in the past,

Sanjay Leela Bhansali clearly had taken this movie 

to another level.

I might not like the ending of the movie

because it had too much of blood, sacrifices, deaths, and sorrows

but when I really think about the lessons behind the movie,

it gives me more than just tears.

Here are lessons I learned.

1. Coincidence can be a beauty.

You may think something happens because it's just a coincidence,

but one thing always leads to another,

you will connect the dots and in the end,

nothing is just a coincidence in life, you will somehow figure out the reasons behind it.

2. Mind your language, because people may use your words as weapons against you.

Literally.

I learned that when people are in a position of power,

they use it for their own benefit

and little did they know that sometimes their words seem to be a little too harsh,

they make others feel belittled and people might hold grudge against them and

we all know having a grudge is never good.

3. Power hunger causes the loss of humanity since ever.

Wars happen because people want to show off their power,

they wanna be more and more wealthy,

they want to control the world, 

and they just love taking control of things and other people.

Another problem is that these people tend to be more and more greedy

and the things that they want to own could never last forever,

yet they're still willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to stay in power.

4. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholders.

There's a part of the movie when someone was blaming Queen Padmavati

because her beauty had caused chaos to the country,

and she should be punished for it.

Was it her fault for being born to be beautiful?

I couldn't think of anything better to relate this to, 

other than relating this to the raping/sexual harassment issues.

The society always blame the victims,

they even blame them more than they would blame the perpetrators.

#metoo campaigns need to go wild on social media,

and when more people stand up for these issues,

then only some parts of the society could realize that

perpetrators should be blamed and not the victims.

But for most of the part, their mentality remains the same,

victims are always the ones to be blamed.

Like in this movie,

the Queen is not at fault for being born beautiful.

It's the villain King, who started all the wars, just to 

'enjoy' the Queen's beauty as if she's an object that

he could trade like he traded diamonds for pearls.

Women are in fact more valuable than diamonds and pearls. 

We have seen so many cases in the world where women are being objectified

and Queen Padmavati made a crystal clear point that a woman shouldn't 

give up her beauty and dignity so easily, just because of a powerful man's threats.

"Chittor will witness another war, one that is unseen and unheard of. 

We women will have to lead it from the very front. 

And that war shall be the biggest defeat of Alauddin's life."

-Padmaavat, 2018

5. True love means you would protect each other even if it means sacrificing your life.

There're so many things that can go wrong in a war,

obviously, there's always more than 50% chances of death

but you gotta do what you gotta do to protect your loved ones, right?

This movie shows the difference between love and lust.

Love is not blind, but lust is.

When you love, you will protect, you will care and the happiness of people you love

values more than your happiness.

But lust leads you to selfishness.

Lust consumes you, but love nourishes you.

6. You might hold still to your principle, but others won't always play by your rule.

Although I agree that we should hold on to our life principles,

 I still think that there should be a disclaimer to that,

a small *term&conditions applied font should be floating somewhere in your life principle.

Sticking to your life principle is definitely a good thing,

but at time of dangers, you should be a little bit wiser.

Overall, it's a 4.5/5 movie

and I recommend you to watch them

and really understand the underlying messages behind the movie!

You'll appreciate this piece of art, for sure!

xx,