LAW, LITERATURE AND FILMS

A PRESENTATION ON A LAW BASED FILM

IPSIT ACHARYA
2009/B.B.A. LL.B.(H)/21
MAIN AISA HI HOON (2005)
Main Aisa Hi Hoon is a
Bollywood film (2005).
Directed and produced by Harry
Baweja
Writers are Anurag Kashyap and
Harry Baweja
Stars Ajay Devgan, Sushmita
Sen, Anupam Kher and Esha Deol
Seasoned actors like Anjaan
Srivastav, Lilette Dubey and
Naresh Suri also act in this film
 MAIN AISA HI HOON (2005)
Synopsis
 Mentally challenged Indraneel Thakur works in a coffee shop while he raises his
daughter Gungun as a single parent. For seven years Neel has been looking after the
child and both live happily together .
 Gungun's mother Maya Trivedi, after giving birth to her, disappeared, never to be seen
again.
 However, Maya's father Dayanath Trivedi, an NRI, comes to India for his
granddaughter's custody. He soon takes Neel to court for the same.
 With the help of the townspeople, Neel is introduced to Neeti Khanna , a lawyer and a
single mother, dealing with her own problems. Thus, a child custody battle ensues.
 The movie shows how a lawyer, in order to win a case for the sake of justice, even
marries a mentally challenged man.
PERSONALITY OF THE FICTIONAL LAWYER
 Neeti Khanna (Sushmita Sen)is a promising lawyer.
 She has been neglecting her own son for whom she could never take
out time from her busy professional life.
 Neel’s persistence, his honesty and innocence melt her heart and she
takes up his case.
 Neeti takes the challenge to the child’s grandfather and decides to
fight a tough battle. In the course, she also learns the values of good
parenting from Neel’s unfathomable love for his daughter.
 She even marries Neel so that he gets a fair and just decision of
keeping custody of the child whom he has been caring for last seven
years.
LEGAL CUSTODY OF A CHILD
 The film has the main plot of the legal court scene in which the
grandfather of the child wants to get the guardianship of the child
 He cites that the child’s present custodian, her father, is mentally
incapable of bringing up the child
 The child’s father, in return, vies for the best lawyer in the town to
retain the child’s custody
 The film shows how a child becomes a matter of object and
subject during a custody trial, which is worst for her basic
childhood life
PERSONAL LIVES OF LAWYERS
 The film has a very interesting depiction of how successful
professionals may be having a very unsuccessful personal life
 The film cites that the tensions arising in the personal lives is
due to the inability to balance it with the professional life.
 Neeti Khanna(Sushmita Sen), plays the character of a very
successful lawyer, but who is unsuccessful in her personal
family life
 She is a divorcee and a single mother, and in pursuing her
career, she has been long neglecting her own son.
PROFESSIONALISM OF LAWYERS AND
THE STRIVE FOR JUSTICE
 The fictional lawyer played by Sushmita Sen in the
film is a true personification of a good lawyer.
 Her aim is not just to win cases, but to win it for the
sake of equitable justice.
 She getting married to a mentally challenged man
to get fairness for his efforts is a very commendable
depiction of an ideal lawyer.
RELATED CASES TO THE FILM

 Crandall v. Wagner (1999) 71 Cal.App.4th 724], the

biological mother refused to let the caretaker mother
visit the child.
 Troxel v. Granville (1999)], the remarried mother
tried to bar visitation by the deceased father's
parents.
 Baby Jessica case, famous because the birth mother
had named the wrong man as the father.
RELATED ETHICAL ISSUES
 We must respect the child as a person and acknowledge that
she is the most vulnerable party in the proceeding.
 Regardless of the circumstances that lead the child's custody
to be at issue, her best interests must be the central concern.
 It is a moral wrong to decide issues of child placement based
on adult conflicts and injustices that may have stemmed
from adult behaviour.
 These decisions affect the child, who is mentally hurt due to
the legal battle.
CONCLUSION
 The film is a good depiction of the role of morality in
our professional and personal lives.
 It shows the importance of love and care which the
children expect from their parents.
 The court scene of the film gives excerpts as to what
the child really needs in life.
 All legal battles are not necessarily for the good of the
people. It may end up hurting your own child too.
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