Maja Ma – What’s the big deal #Review

Reviewer: Avni Rahul Katakkar

Title – Maja Ma – What’s the big deal ?

While everyone these days is trying to catch the train of social issues and identity crisis , director Anand Tiwari’s , Madhuri Dixit starrer ‘Maja Ma’ has got a good hold over the topic.

The movie revolves around the topic of LGBTQ AI+ space, the movie has well managed to take a good plunge into the space , not overdoing anything into the family drama.

The scent of Gujrat, the local dialect is effervescent ( a little unrealistic in some scenes). The movie also discusses many relevant issues like the importance of physical intimacy in a marriage, long distance marriages, very subtly.

There are scenes where this very issue is skimmed out when even the news reporters gets jumbled between LGBTQ & LPG.

This family drama mirrors how we veil not just our gender identity but our persona and perceptions just to fit in the societal norms so that they don’t isolate us and how important it is that your family and children accept what you are, who you are.

Ritwik Bhowmick, Sheeba Chaddha and Rajit Kapur have been incredible but the show stealer is as usual – Gajraj Rao. Sadly, actors like Malhar Thakkar are wasted with no content at all.

The scenes between Madhuri and Gajraj are beautiful and overwhelming and the ones between the mother-son duo are actually overdone. Plus the comic timings of the characters in the movie are a hit.

The movie is surely engrossing, not thought provoking but would make you perceive that respecting your own gender and self acceptance is a big deal!

Highlights of the movie-

1. The best scene in the movie is when Madhri makes the audience realise that being Lesbian or of any gender orientation for that matter, isn’t about being physically intimate but about loving someone.
2. You realise that you must ket your children know your imperfections too. You ain’t God!
3. Mutual understanding between a couple is the key to their relationship ( no matter what gender)

Drawbacks –

1. The beginning scenes of the movie don’t convince you actually that Madhuri is a mother to two grown ups , there’s something amiss in her character at the start of the movie.
2. The scene where Madhuri ( Pallavi’s) best-friend Kanchan – who looks perfectly pretty and enticing throughout the movie , is suddenly shot as a feeble leukemia patient with hair loss.

My takeaway from the movie –

1. Self-acceptance makes you confident
2. Solve your own issues first and then dig down others
3. Your imperfections need the light of the day
4. Why don’t couples accept the fact that physical intimacy could be discussed and appreciated at any age!
5. We need to be a more sensitized and sensitive society towards every human.

About the Author:

I am Avni Katakkar, I am a Technologist by qualification, a writer by passion, a freelancer by profession and a mother to adorable twins. I am an acclaimed storyteller. I love watching movie and like making a movie is an art , I really feel reviewing it too involves huge love for Arts , persuade and information. One should be able to analyse a movie like a professional but I am the audience who knows what people actually love and prefer to watch. So I am definitely the one who is honest to my movie loving audience.

Writing has come to me naturally , I take all the inspiration from my kids. I am an avid reader and a poet at heart.