She even loudly complains about how " Baby ki umar nkli ja rahi hai (Baby is getting too old for marriage)." Consumed by the fact that Baby isn't getting a good rishta, her mother (Samina Ahmed) reacts by shaming her looks, telling her to lose weight, watch her skin tone and the works. And while that in itself is an important issue, the team behind the film takes it one step ahead by showing how this damages one's mentality at every stage and how it affects the women who fall victim to this gruesome mindset.įarhana, affectionately known as Baby baaji (Faiza Hasan) can't get married because her family can't afford the jahez. The 'load' in Load Wedding is about the burdens that must be borne to make a marriage happen, namely jahez (dowry). Load Wedding points out all the toxicity towards women in desi wedding cultureįrom the name I was expecting the movie to have many jabs at the electricity crises that Karachi goes through (pun on load wedding ya know?) but the film takes place in Nirali, a town near Lahore. Where many Pakistani films show the happy mehndis and dholkis, Load Wedding shows the actual stress, pain and unnecessary hassle behind making a wedding happen in the first place. I was upset that these issues are still prevalent in our society. I was infuriated at the realities the film was portraying. In fact Load Wedding has been one of the better films I have seen in a long while. Raja's situation had me infuriated, but not at the movie.
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