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    Mirabai Chanu, India’s star weightlifter, gave India a dream start at the Tokyo Olympics, clinching a silver medal in women’s 49kg event. With his medal, Chanu scripted history as she became the first-ever Indian to win an Olympic medal on the opening day of the event.
    Chanu lifted a total of 202kg (87kg snatch & 115kg clean and jerk) to clinch India’s first-ever silver in weightlifting at the Olympics. Before her, Karnam Malleswari’s bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was the country's best ever performance in weightlifting.
    Silver medal! 🥈

    After a tough battle, Chanu Saikhom Mirabai finishes in second place in the #Weightlifting women's -49kg and earns the first medal for India at #Tokyo2020@iwfnet @WeAreTeamIndia pic.twitter.com/zLF5Et6NLC
    — Olympics (@Olympics) July 24, 2021
    Chanu’s medal gave billions of Indians a moment to cherish forever but things weren’t exactly the same five year ago and she wanted to quit the sport forever.
    The Manipuri weightlifter went into 2016 Rio Olympicswith high hopes but came empty-handed. More than the result, she was disappointed with the way she performed. Out of six attempts, she could only manage one clean lift which shattered her completely.
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    “When I got the call from Mirabai and she told me about the result, I fainted. The whole family cried. Mirabai told me that she was nervous and wanted to quit the sport,” Chanu’s mother Saikhom Tombi Devi told Indian Express. 

    But the champions never backed down and Chanu wasn’t ready to give up so easily. Learning from her mistakes, she bounced back in some fashion, striking gold at the Commonwealth Championships and the World Championships in 2017. The following year she bagged the top prize at the Commonwealth Games.
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    As they say, what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger and same was the case with Chanu. She was a completely different player after the Rio disappointment. She channelised her anger and scaled new heights in the next couple of years.

    Just when it looked like there would be no stopping her, she was ruled out for almost 10 months due to an injury. She went into the Olympics high on confidence after creating a new clean and jerk world record, lifting 119kg at the Asian Championships held in April this year.
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    Given her form, she was one of the brightest medal prospects for India but then again one couldn’t forget how things turned south for her in Brazil. She buried the ghosts of the Rio Olympics with her historic performance in Tokyo and made us all proud.


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    "Agar ladki tang kare, toh usse uthvado,phir himmat nahi karegi"
    These words aren’t new to our ears as the sad reality of growing number of rape cases in the country continue to shock us. Women still live in fear of being robbed off their dignity and morality by men who are fed with misconstrued notions of the patriarchal society. In Vidya Balan’s Natkhat, this dialogue will leave you numb not because you aren’t familiar with it but for the fact that it has been uttered by the 7-year-old Sonu in the movie.
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    That very dialogue is the realization of the dark reality that how children imitate the elders and learn by examples. In an interview with us, Vidya had said, “It’s high time that we realize that children learn by example and not by instruction. You can tell the child to do the right thing but if you aren’t doing it by yourself, he or she will not do it because children mimic the behavior of the elders. What also makes you uncomfortable while watching the movie is this innocent child saying, ‘ladki agar tang kare toh usko uthwado’ and it’s a big thing but he is not realizing the gravity of it. He has heard adults talk like that.”
    I totally echo these thoughts that it’s high time that we touch our sons to treat women right. Well, the title of the movie Natkhat indicates to someone who’s mischievous but is harmless but here you see it turning into a nightmare for Vidya’s character as her son is committing horrifying crimes of bullying and is convinced that women are the ‘second ***’ or probably not even human beings.

    Vidya’s character Surekha might be powerless in tacking her own situation as she too is a victim of domestic violence at home as he husband beats her daily and forces himself on her but she doesn’t want the same story for her son. She doesn’t her son to follow the same path as the men in the house do. It’s empowering to see how she changes his mindset by telling him a story. Director Shaan Vyas has beautifully weaved the story of King Vyas who was cruel to other creatures in kingdoms and how it landed up affecting his daughter Urmi into the narrative.
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    Despite the run time of 33 mins, you will be moved to an extent wherein you will start questioning the structure of patriarchy. It’s so powerful and it stayed with me long after I was done watching it. I genuinely feel it deserves a full feature film because it’s compelling and thought-provoking.

    The director has brilliantly captured the fact of how men get power from this machismo and how they take pride in the fact that they have made women feel the weaker ***. Vidya, who has also co-produced the short film with Ronnie Screwvala, is a strong pillar of the story as she will make you realize that women need to start teaching their boys at a tender age and in a language that they can understand.
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    It’s so heartbreaking to see how Surekha uses her scars to make the kid understand if he will continue being ‘natkhat’, she will keep paying for it. In the end, you see this beautiful transition that leaves you hopeful.

    In a nutshell, I would want to say that I had goosebumps while watching the movie and I was numb all throughout. I totally recommend you this movie because it has explored so many talking points mainstream cinema steers clear of. From domestic violence to child abuse, there’s a lot that will leave you unsettled.
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    Behind her ‘ghoonghat’, Surekha fought patriarchy in her own beautiful yet powerful way.


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