Maja maa

2022 - 10 - 6

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Maja Ma movie review: This Madhuri Dixit-Gajraj Rao film needs ... (The Indian Express)

Maja Ma movie review: Madhuri Dixit is the pivot around which this film revolves, and in some places she does become the actor who can bring her character-- ...

The ‘wokeness’ about agency and how it is always down to the person whether they want to ‘come out’ is underlined at one point, and in other places, it becomes a matter other people want to stick their noses into. Things start going askew when the parents of the bride, Bob and Pam Hansraj (Rajit Kapur and Sheeba Chaddha) arrive in India, armed with their deep prejudices and exaggerated accents. [Maja Ma](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/karan-johar-lavishes-praise-on-madhuri-dixit-nenes-movie-maja-maa-8189923/)’ uses the domestic space to explore the complexities of sexual identity, social niceties, hypocrisy, and falsehood.

Maja Ma review: The most Ayushmann Khurrana movie without an ... (Hindustan Times)

Maja Ma movie review: Madhuri Dixit stars as lead in Prime Video's latest social comedy about a woman in closet. | Bollywood.

And in the laziest piece of writing and series of events, the truth is revealed not just to her entire family but also her neighbours, and most damningly, her son's (Ritwik Bhowmick) to-be in-laws. In a moment that clearly belonged in a different and better movie, Simone gives Sheeba a warm serving of honey right in her ear that almost makes you want to leave your seat and applaud for finally shutting up the bad accent. Madhuri, in one of her few lead-starring roles since returns from the US herself, is mostly good to watch. Another messy bit – Maja Ma wants to live in the modern and orthodox worlds at the same time. [Madhuri Dixit](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/madhuri-dixit) plays a Gujarati mother of two, the dancing queen of her Vrindavan Society, aarti-leader and a perfect wife on all counts except one. Ancient and a bit too hopeful at the same time, Maja Ma is a weird concoction served on colourful, 'social comedy' platter.

Maja Ma: A Self-satisfied, Preachy Social Entertainer With a Dhokla ... (Film Companion)

Director: Anand Tiwari. Writer: Sumit Batheja. Cast: Madhuri Dixit, Ritwik Bhowmik, Srishti Shrivastava, Gajraj Rao, Simone Singh, Rajit Kapoor, ...

The day will come when the story of a middle-aged woman coming out on her own terms can exist on its own terms – unshackled by the need to be accessible, educative and safe. Which is why you have two men driving to a juice bar for “liquid courage,” instead of them perhaps clinking beers and reaping the dividends of underground bootlegging in a dry state. Ultimately, then, even the film falls into its own trap and treats her like her family does – as a device for its own enlightenment. Manohar sets out to revive the ‘spark’ in his marriage; Tejas is busy resenting his mother and doing damage control with Isha’s pompous parents; Tara is disappointed with her mother for not validating her own academic reading of feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Everyone is supposed to come of age in such stories (this is no spoiler, by any stretch of un-imagination), and the problem with mainstream cinema is the preachy language. The wokeness of the girl is aggressive rather than organic; she is nearly hounding the older woman (“What if I were a lesbian? It follows in the footsteps of the recent The rest of the film is rooted in the aftermath of this dhokla-shattering revelation. The narrative reflects her deep-rooted lack of agency in the way it branches out into her family’s struggles. Tejas flies back to prep his well-to-do-but-not-too-rich family – vintage society-president father Manohar bhai (Gajraj Rao), dance-teaching and home-making mother Pallavi ben (Madhuri Dixit), and fiery activist sister Tara (Srishti Srivastava) – for the arrival of his future in-laws. The day will come when I run out of ways to suggest that the treatment of socially-expressive stories is as important as the message. How they go about it – the actual telling of the story, the detailing, the context and craft – becomes incidental.

Five reasons you should watch Madhuri Dixit-starrer Maja Ma with ... (Firstpost)

Maja Ma premiered today and audiences from all over have been streaming it and sharing their love.

Gajraj Rao on Gunehgaar: ‘Teleplays are a way to encourage and preserve the best of theatre’](https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/not-just-bollywood-gajraj-rao-on-gunehgaar-teleplays-are-a-way-to-encourage-and-preserve-the-best-of-theatre-ott-boom-teleplay-11415181.html) Follow us on [also read] [Entertainment](https://www.firstpost.com/category/entertainment) [Madhuri Dixit calls OTT a democratic platform: It gives you the flexibility & the freedom to write different characters](https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/madhuri-dixit-on-maja-ma-with-ott-coming-in-you-dont-need-to-look-young-even-for-a-female-centric-role-11345511.html) Maja Ma is a part of Prime Video’s festive line-up for the Great Indian Festival 2022. It’s a movie that can make you laugh until your tummy hurts, and leave you lost in thought way after the credits roll. With a large serving of emotions and drama, and doses of warm, funny moments and a thought-provoking message, the movie has it all.. With a festive mood and vibe, Maja Ma premiered today and audiences from all over have been streaming it and sharing their love. Stars and cinephiles like Homi Adajania, Sunny Kaushal, Mini Mathur, and Maniesh Paul others have loved the movie. With creativity at its peak and putting their best foot forward, the artists of the movie will blow your minds with their passionate and effortless acting. When it comes to the music, you see names like Shreya Ghoshal, Siddharth Mahadevan, Ash King, Prakriti Kakar, and even the band The Yellow Diary. That’s why, it comes as no surprise that the music album has a few bangers like Ae Pagli, Kachhi Doriyaan, Buniyaad, and even the Garba anthem for this season, Boom Padi. Director Anand Tiwari and Producer Amritpal Singh Bindra are back to win your hearts with this unique story. Maja Ma brings the creative duo Amrit and Anand together for one more hit.

Madhuri Dixit, Ritwik Bhowmik, Barkha Singh and Srishti ... (Filmfare)

An exclusive conversation with the Maja Ma cast Madhuri Dixit, Ritwik Bhowmik, Barkha Singh and Srishti Shrivastava.

I want each of you to use one adjective that defines your favourite thing about your character in the film. It's a conversation being made between people, between relationships, between emotions, between past, present, and so on and so forth. My family, your family, our neighbours but it had the most unique approach in finding and telling or expressing emotions because of the kind of layering that the story has, the kind of conflicts it has, the kind of things that it's talking about. But of course, He's a lover. So it was this whole array of emotions that started with this anticipation, to this hectic nerves, to like fine, oh okay they are also humans, they are very nice humans, they're very giving and they're being very nice, to acceptance of that fact, to finding some sort of a comfort zone, to playing dumb charades between scenes, to dancing together at rap parties. And the first time I saw him, it was like bohot acha bacha hai. And it was great for me to know it was Garba because I've never done Garba in my entire career. I've danced in all kinds of different styles but never done Garba, and I was thrilled that I got to dance to a Garba song. It honestly is by chance and by luck, that most stories I'm part of have a fantastic mother-son dynamic. We had fun and the whole thing went off so smoothly, and we were all Maja Ma on the set. Everybody is just right in their roles and I've had a blast on Maja Ma because on the set we all were Maja Ma. We want to do very complicated characters and like you said, very layered, something you can enjoy doing and which challenges you to do better.

Madhuri Dixit's Maja Ma has a great plot twist but it gets cold feet (ThePrint)

Amazon Prime's first original film Maja Ma is a coming-of-age story of a middle-class Gujarati matriarch Pallavi, played by Madhuri Dixit.

It could have been an Astitva (2000), the Tabu-starrer Mahesh Manjrekar film that also looks at a married woman’s identity and whose resolution is way more impactful even though it came out two decades ago. The character’s journey of accepting her identity and sexuality, and of confronting the consequence of making a ‘safe’ choice through her marriage is performed with finesse by Madhuri. Srishti Shrivastava is earnest in portraying a problematic activist who is so hell-bent on being a saviour that she forgets to be a daughter. However, one performance that stands out is given by Simone Singh, who shines in a confrontation scene with both Madhuri and Sheeba in the frame. In fact, the exaggerated accent and ‘purity’ and lie detection tests turn the entire family into caricatures. Directed by Anand Tiwari and written by Sumit Batheja, the film opens up like a can of worms.