Review of Paheli

Paheli (2005)
3/10
Beautiful and Mean-Spirited
14 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I hated this movie. It was nice to look at, but was not good for much else. I don't like this story at all. I didn't know beforehand that Lachchi knew the whole time that Ghost-Kishen wasn't her husband. As soon as I realized that, I began to hate this movie. Lachchi had every reason to be depressed that her preoccupied husband left her the day after their wedding, but that does not excuse her decision. The whole thing was not fair to Kishen. He was not a bad person. He did not deserve to have his life taken away from him forever. Ghost-Kishen was mean and selfish, from him ripping up Kishen's letter to him standing silently while Kishen was accused of being a liar. And Lachchi is somewhat of a hypocrite. She's supposedly proper and wears a veil in public, all the while she's sleeping with someone who is not her husband. I'm supposed to be rooting for this couple? Please. I was disgusted with them. At the end, I almost cried for Kishen. When I was I felt like he died, and he might as well have. The end was as mean and selfish as the Ghost. I know it's just a movie, but few movies make me so angry. I was very disappointed.

I agree that the scenes were slow and boring and that Juhi looked amazing. They didn't show her enough. As far as Suniel's special appearance goes, it wasn't done well and the Juhi/Suniel story made no impression whatsoever. The best things about the movie were Juhi and the soundtrack.
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