School of Political Science and

Sociology
Movie Review on

BELASHSHE

Course: SOC101

Section: 11

Prepared for:

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

Department of Political Science and Sociology

North South University

Prepared by:

Date of Submission: 26th August, 2018

INDTRODUCTION:
The movie I’m going to talk is “BELASESHE”. I am going to discuss mainly this movie’s
objects and social message. According to me; this movie is based on Interpersonal Attraction
& Relationships. This movie tells us about Arrange Marriage adjustment in our society. This
story shows how women are sacrificing their time and everything for family and husband
without any word. Also I am going to talk about how this movie’s topic related with
sociology. I’ll discuss everything step by step.

MOVIE REVIEW:
This movie is directed by NAMDITA ROY and SHIBOPROSAD MUKHERJEE. It
presented by ATANU RAYCHOUDHURI. Edition by MALAY LAHA, It’s music and lyrics
by ANUPAM ROY and ANINDYA CHATTOPADHAYAY. Dialogues by SHIBOPROSAD
MUKHERJEE. It’s main male artist is SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE and female artist is
SWATILEKHA SENGUPTA. It is released in 26th February, 2016.

In this movie, we can see that BISWANATH MAJUMDAR (soumitra) and AARTI
MAJUMDAR (swatilekha) has passed 50 years of their arrange marriage life. They have 4
children, including 1 son and 3 daughters. And all of them are married and leading their life
with their own family. In the 50 years of marriage life, BISWANATH MAJUMDAR
(soumitra) realized had his wife is dependent on him. She doesn’t know about outside of her
family including their insurance, bank balance etc. BISWANATH MAJUMDAR (soumitra)
wanted his wife to be independent without him. And, he belived that, AARTI MAJUMDAR
(swatilekha) won’t be able to be independent while she is with him. On Durga puja in
DASAMI, BISWANATH MAJUMDAR (soumitra) called his son and daughters for
dividing property he had. In front of his children he announces that, he want divorce from
AARTI MAJUMDAR (swatilekha). Everyone was shocked since they actually had a happy
family.
BISWANATH MAJUMDAR (soumitra) hides the reason of his decision.

FOUR CONCEPTS OF SOCIOLOGY:

1. CULTURE: It is a set of beliefs, traditions and practices the sum total of social
categories and concepts. We embrace in addition to beliefs, behaviors and practices
that which is not the natural environment around us.
2. Interdependence: Interdependence means, people evaluate of relationship in
terms of the outcomes.
3. SHARED ACTIVITIES: Sharing activities is sharing the activities such as
studying in same group, watching movie together, eating together, enjoying party
together increases the possibility of liking.
 4. Self-disclosure: Self-Disclosure means revealing the personal information. As
relationship gets mature, we disclose our secrets with each other in a
relationship.

ANALYSIS OF THIS MOVIE WITH THESE FOUR CONCEPTS:

CULTURE:
The movie was based on Indian-subcontinent context. Our society has some rules and
structure as others society. In our culture, husband works outside and wife is only allowed
to work inside house. Our tradition of past decided it. Wife job is to do household chores,
obeying her husband and most importantly growing her children. In the movie, AARTI
MAJUMDAR (swatilekha) was following that trend. She always listens to her husband.
Doesn’t know about outside world. She was only doing her duty to growing her children. She
never asked any question about business or related like this to her husband. Her husband and
family happiness was everything for her just like our culture taught us.

Interdependence:
In our culture, marriage is something which holds two people together with trust and they are
dependent on each other. In “BELASHESHE”, Biswanath thought his wife too much
dependent him and can’t lead life without him. He was concerned that what she’ll do after his
death. He wanted to make her interdependent. For making her independent, he wanted to
divorce her. He was obviously wrong even he wanted to do the right thing, because too much
independence isn’t good for any relationship. For understanding this we can see Biswanath
and Aarti daughter Milli’s interdependence.

SHARED ACTIVITIES:
In this movie, we saw that Biswanath and Aarti got arranged marriage. They never saw each
other before their marriage. So, they didn’t know too much about each other. And even 50
years of their marriage they were busy with their duty. Biswanath was busy in his business
and Aarti was busy with her family. Biswanath and Aarti never share their emotions with
each other. They didn’t even spent time with each other that created relationship gap between
them.

Self-disclosure:
In “BELASHESHE” we saw that even after 50 years of BISWANATH MAJUMDAR
(soumitra) and AARTI MAJUMDAR (swatilekha) marriage they were failed to disclose their
feeling for each other. Self-disclosure is an important part for growing a relationship.
Because BISWANATH MAJUMDAR (soumitra) and AARTI MAJUMDAR (swatilekha)
couldn’t disclose their emotions for each other that made relationship gap between them. As
a matter of fact, BISWANATH MAJUMDAR (soumitra) wanted divorce even after 50 years
of their marriage. But luckily at the end of the movie they understood it.
CONCLUSION:
The movie was very educative in terms of understanding relationship. I learned that many
problems may occur in a relationship, but that doesn’t mean we’ll have to separate from each
other. And also we all saw that, the fact didn’t only change the old couple life but also their
children’s.