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Bollywood likes to take pictures of the lives of high caste people. The male and female protagonists are usually high caste people (Brahmins). They often immigrate to London, go to the United States for weddings, and travel to Europe with friends before marriage... .The filming is often done in developed countries in Europe and America. There is a feeling of whitewashing and peace that is divorced from the reality of Indian society. Few films reflect the real life of Indian people (there are some, but there should be more).

And this film can be said to be a very real reflection of the poverty of Indian society. The male protagonist's family in the film is not a rural person, and their life is not as good as that of a backward rural person in China. The house has no running water, and the roof is self-built. The water tank is connected to a water pump that is often damaged. Life is very inconvenient. The laundry is washed directly on the floor in the middle of the room. The stair board seems to be a few thin boards inserted into the wall. I am afraid that the heroine will fall off. The Lord's father slept like this with his dirty feet sticking into the quilt from the floor, brushing his teeth during the day and squatting outside the street to brush, and the pots and pans in the kitchen (I don't know if they need to be washed) are placed on the ground. A small square in the concrete floor looks all gray without tiles, but the family sits on the floor at every turn.... It's so dirty that I'm going to faint!

The male protagonist sacrificed his dignity to learn how to bark and roll on the ground in order to get a job with a monthly salary of several thousand rubles. Later, he found a job with a higher salary of 7,000 rubles a month, which is only 660 yuan in RMB! It turns out that the job should be even less, and it makes me sad to think about it. Moreover, one person's salary has to support three other people in the family, plus four of his own! How can this live...

I can’t even afford a sewing machine, and I’m asked to share the profits because I borrowed it from others. I have to go all the way to get a free one, and I have to beg others to give it back to me over and over again. This old-fashioned sewing machine is really rubbish now. No one will pick it up in the pile. It's really sad that Indians are so poor.

In the end, they won the design competition, which I think is fake. The male protagonist is only good at sewing, but it is completely different from fashion design. With his education and life experience, how can he cultivate a sense of fashion beauty? How can a rural person design clothes with high taste? The director is really whimsical. This ending is really tough in real life.

Watching this movie just made me feel that the life of the poor in India is really miserable, that kind of life is painful to think about, and sometimes it is not necessarily better to live than to die.