Nowadays, I am finding there are lot of films produced on women empowerment in different languages. Perhaps this is what the public wants to watch. What is interesting to note is how well it resonates with our times.
I enjoy watching films that make you think and feel as much as I enjoy happy fun films
I just finished watching a new Hindi movie called Sukhee. It’s about a daring woman (Shilpa Shetty) who elopes and gets married to a man of her choice in her college days. In time she becomes a homemaker. But her husband over the years stops valuing her. She toils everyday at home but her daughter stops needing her. Her only desire is to go meet her friends and attend her school reunion after 20 years. But her husband does not want her to go.
Nevertheless she leaves them and goes to meet her school friends. She realises how much she has missed her old life and wants to stay back some more… But her husband gives her an ultimatum to come back now or never come back…
What decision she takes forms the rest of the story…
On Strength of Empowerment
We talk of strength and there are many strengths in the challenges
Of Courage
Of Resilience
Of Tolerance
Of Patience
Speaking of women, I want you to answer this following question.
Who is a strong empowered woman?
The one who has the courage to get up and leave when she knows she is simply being used but not wanted?
Or the one who stays and dares to change the equation?
I look forward to your answers
Savvy
Savvy Raj 
November 22, 2023 at 11:08 am
SMiLes Dear Savvy Gathering Up A Few More Wiki Cliff Notes on the
Movie “Sukhee” You Relate About the Power of Women And
Choices of Whether to Stay in A Difficult Marriage
or Pursue Other Dreams of Freedom in Life
It Appears in the Movie That The Woman
Has Been Married Close to Two Decades
Not Sure If She Has Children in the Movie Or How
Many Yet Surely Many Women Do Stay in Difficult
Marriages For the Sake of the Children Being Raised
For Financial Security and to Avoid Religious And or
Cultural Stigma That Is Often Difficult to Deal With Too
For those Cultures and or Religions That Frown Very Much
on Divorce too the Catholic Church i Visit is Surely One of Those
Places Yet i Don’t Particularly Consider myself Any Part of the Dogma of that
Church
i Just Like
A Communion
of Singing Uplifting Songs
And i Tend to Make FRiEnDS
Easy No Matter What Part of Life They are in
And For me at Least Forgiving is Easy in What Has
Often Become a Throw Away Human Society Where
Humans Treat Other Humans More Like Objects Than
Humans Sort of Like Clothes to Try on And Just Discard
Before They Even Get Worn Out or Patches Are Tried
on Holes in The Clothes Relationships Are A
Challenge As Humans Change
Considerably Over A
Lifetime Where
A New Creation of
A Human Being
More Positive or
Negative Depending
on Different Human Views May Come
Other Than That Some Folks Are Stronger
to Forgive and Work Hard to Repair Bonds of the
Past Than Others So the Question of Whether to Stay
Or Go Surely Cannot Be Answered By me Alone That
Would of Course Depend on Many Variables Yet
in my Case i Can Forgive Everyday And Still
Come to A Hug By The End of the Day
That’s Really All the Advice
my Wife’s Mother Gave
Us When We Got
Married Over 33 years ago…
In The Culture of India my Understanding
Is Recently Divorce Rates Have Been As Low
As 1 Percent out of Those Who Are Married
Considering the Close to 50 Percent of
Divorces in Marriages in the
United States That is
Really Astounding to me
Yet of Course That Doesn’t Mean
Everyone is Blissfully Happy in Their Marriage
And Really If Folks Believe That’s How it’s Always
Gonna Be They surely come to Find Out More About the Human Condition
Hehe And Also Eventually Come to find out the Grass on the other Side Might Not
Be
Greener at all
Yet of Course That
Depends on the Individual
And Their Environment So Much too
And Hey at Least in my Country They
Offer Marriage Counselors to Help with Repairs..:)
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November 22, 2023 at 10:48 pm
Enjoyed reading your perspectives on relationships but loved the last line even more. Especially… to help with the repairs. 🙂
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November 22, 2023 at 11:39 pm
Thanks Dear Savvy Yes
How Blessed We aRe
Putting People And
The Rest of Nature
First
With SMiles☺️🙏
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November 22, 2023 at 4:08 pm
I think, being strong woman is mix of things, she should have patience to adapt or accept new challenges, and the strength and boldness to put up her thoughts and try to better things, but then she should be resilient and undeterred too to quit when she is simply seen as something which challenges her worth or existence . Walking away isn’t always the best thing, courage to face challenges is important too but then at the same time she should have confidence to walk away and take care of herself if she is being used or ignored and demeaned consistently
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November 22, 2023 at 10:55 pm
Makes so much sense Sanjay Thank you for your insights. But also makes me think so much is expected from a woman in the name of strength. 🙂Isn’t it?
Every life is challenging in its own way,
And each finds their own ways of emerging stronger from it.
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November 22, 2023 at 11:06 pm
Actually there is an additional burden of duties the women undergo as a mother ,, but otherwise there are lot of expect from both genders from family though in different fields , but these days due to nuclear families and working women the additional burden of motherhood and as rearing of kids is looked upon best under the shadows of mother they are more hard pressed and thus mostly they quit their jobs or occupations after getting into motherhood role. But yeah here we talked about quitting, so for me as I think the most critical factor is financial independence, and every lady should aspire to be financially independent, and after getting into marriage should take atleast 3,4 years before she decide to become parent, till then we very well know the spouse and also other important people in the family , the environment,their thinking and all those things which matters,, and then if a lady feels worthless to stay in a marriage for any good reason and she is financially independent, she can take the decision much easily to quit if she opt for it. I think most of ladies suffer for 2 reason, firstly they are not financially independent and secondly they become parent soon , so then they are not confident about their future securities and also mostly families also doesn’t support quitting due to various superficial reasons so at that time if she is having job she can take decision on its own and be more confident to get out of a suffocating relationship
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November 26, 2023 at 5:22 pm
This is a poignant yet practical gem of a response. Deeply appreciate the nuggets of truth in it. 🙏
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November 26, 2023 at 5:28 pm
My pleasure ma’am
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January 19, 2024 at 2:31 pm
Beautiful post and wonderful point highlighted.
Before answering your question one thing I want to share – yes empowerment is necessary but not be misunderstood or misused as per convenience. Where we talk about equality and empowerment, playing sympathy card at same time doesn’t justify things.
Whereas the question asked I think it depends on what circumstances you are dealing with. As decision depends how you strongly justify yourself.
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January 19, 2024 at 10:50 pm
Yes Tanvir I agree with you on this… there are many factors beyond what is apparent… each to their own.
Personally I believe the strength of the soul is in living life lovingly no matter where life takes you…
Thank you for sharing your perspectives. 🙏
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