Meherjaan

I read a lot about the movie, so I wanted to see what the fuss is all about. I wish I hadn't. I am not going to add more about the blatant lie and twisted history the director presented. Even putting that aside, the movie is awful. The acting is poor, the story is incoherent. The costume design and dialog is ridiculous, no one in that time used to dress and speak like that. There are some hints about homosexuality which is totally out of the blue. I heard the movie was attracting people (may be because of all the controversiality), but when I went, there were only 20something people in theater. I guess that should have been my clue to leave the theater and save my time. The people present burst out laughing whenever there was an emotional moment, which denotes the quality of acting.

If you want my advice, save your time and money and don't go watch it.

As the 40th anniversary of the 1971 war approaches, the Bangladeshi government has set up an International Crimes Tribunal to investigate the atrocities of that era. There has been a denial by "certain political groups" of the history of the war, and a failure to account for the crimes of sexual violence against women," said Sara Hossain to NY times, a human rights lawyer based in Dhaka. The director just admitted Mrs. Hossain thoughts. Director successfully failed to show the experiences of women — the independence fighters, the victims of rape, the widows — during the war and more importantly the violence, sexual assault they experienced rarely acknowledged in this movie. "As a young teenager in 1971, I had heard a lot about female university students, young village girls and women being raped and held captive, effectively forced into sexual slavery, in the military cantonment. But after the war, very soon, one heard nothing more," said Irene Khan, former secretary general of Amnesty International in NY times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/world/asia/25iht-letter.html) where as writer intentionally regret this fact. Bangladesh is only now grappling with war crimes — and with great difficulty, given the way the issue is mired in the politics of religious fundamentalist parties. The gender dimension of the atrocities is not fully acknowledged, nor is the huge contribution that women made to the liberation struggle as fighters and supporters in Meherjaan. "Rape in Bangladesh had hardly been restricted to beauty," Brownmiller writes. "Girls of eight and grandmothers of seventy-five had been sexually assaulted ... Pakistani soldiers had not only violated Bengali women on the spot; they abducted tens of hundreds and held them by force in their military barracks for nightly use." Some women may have been raped as many as eighty times in a night (Brownmiller, p. 83). How many died from this atrocious treatment, and how many more women were murdered as part of the generalized campaign of destruction and slaughter, can only be guessed at. These are the facts, history and proud of Bangladesh. By twisting all of these facts the director just slapped us and Bangladesh. Finally, I thanked Bangladesh govt. to ban this movie. I would not recommend to any people to watch it because they will learn the wrong history, facts of Bangladesh of 1971 and the unforgettable contribution what was done by our sister, mother and wife.

One of the worst movies in the history of Bangladesh. The movie spreads a blatant LIE of unfathomable magnitude. The director, according to various reports is an ISI-funded activist with the political agenda of confusing a wider new-generation audience. Absolute distortion of historical facts have been depicted, and a heinous effort of misleading the perception of unaware audience is apparent. People from all spheres with slightest knowledge regarding the Liberation War of Bangladesh have condemned this blunder of a movie. Thousands have voiced their frustrations regarding the movie content and how it might be viewed as utterly shameless 'Goebbelsian Propaganda'.

My advice: "Do not even think of wasting time watching this utter rubbish. And if you really do, please do not conceive the LIES the director systematically portrayed"

This movie is simply a propaganda movie with good cinematography to promote an idea among the new generation of Bangladesh - that the Pakistani army was very much human towards ladies of Bangladesh during 1971 liberation war. This is important cause this movie got released on the eve of the starting of the trial of collaborators of Pakistani army.

It shows love affair between a "Baluch" soldier and a girl of Bangladesh. Even when the elder sister of that girl got raped brutally by Pakistan armies, the girl (Meher) fantasize about loving that "Baluch" soldier.

The movie shows freedom fighters as retarded, tired of war and just bullshits. The characters were built in a way that people will laugh at them. Muslim League - a political party of that time in Pakistan supported the genocide that time for the sake of religion. But in the movie it is showing that the freedom fighters seeking permission from a Muslim league leader for attacking a Paki base.

Fantasy or Imagination or whatever you call it --- should have a limit, specially while dealing with crucial historical fact. This movie failed to satisfy any of the criteria to be a so called "WAR AND LOVE" movie. It remains as a bullshit propaganda movie to affect the trial of collaborators of Pakistani army.

The story of the movie has been written to create a noise so that people will go to theatre to watch it. So by mistake if someone watch it, he/she will never watch the movie in his/her life time ever. Not only the movie fails to capture true sufferings of the women in Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War, but also the poor direction mainly because of the inexperienced director made the film nothing but a 'garbage'. I have never rated a movie as awful but it was easy to do so with this one. Bad acting by the cast. Bad scenarios. Bad writing. Bad music score except only one song. The camera work is very slow. The plot has no sense at all. It is just confusion.