But this is how many men are also forgetting the cruelties of their wives without having any recourse. I know, my feminist readers will think that this is a typical male chauvinist mindset that says women should be submissive etc. While she protested the abuse she was not a violent avenger. A typical feminist family would have taken revenge or filed some extra cases on the distant in-laws as well. Her mother might have initially tried to convince her to rejoin her husband in Doha, but she accepted her decision easily. They accepted her decision to get separated from her husband. No, unlike popular feminist stories her parents didn’t force her to join her husband. If we look at Neerja’s life when she was married to a rich NRI in Qatar and was allegedly abused there she went back to her parent’s house and her parents accepted her back in their family. But while my feminist critics boast about her courage as a true representation of feminism, I would like to humbly disagree with them while accepting their challenge of writing an honest unpaid review of the film. Many of us could have failed to rise up to the occasion like she did. No, I am not here to demean her sacrifice in any manner. Some feminists may cheer this to conclude that husbands are most deadly terrorists in a woman’s life that women can’t sustain.
So it may transpire that Neerja Bhanot who was a simple Sanskari Indian woman with all feminine qualities, could not sustain the torture of her husband but did everything to fight with dreaded terrorists. An alleged dowry torture by Indian husband in a foreign land, the wife not getting respect in her family because of dowry, a broken marriage, woman’s expression of choice of job and the deadliest one – three pilots leaving 300 passengers and crew members in a situation of emergency to force a woman die. However, surprising it may sound, the movie has all feminism elements intact. While not debunking her sacrifice and accepting a challenge from my feminist readers to write an honest review of the film, I would still say the movie Neerja is not about feminism at all. The story of a female Braveheart who had made her country proud, not only helps feminists in an image makeover but also bolsters their claims of women oppression in many ways. When people are finding their heroes in Umar Khalid and Afzal Guru and when feminists are slammed big time for supporting separatists who made a martyr out of Indian parliament attacker, the story of Neerja Bhanot came as a celebration for them. Probably the producer of the movie Neerja wouldn’t have got a better opportunity than releasing this movie around a time when the entire nation is divided on Nationalism row.
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