With a word like toilet in the name and then the implication that the toilet is central to a love story itself caught the public attention. The fact that it’s an Akshay Kumar film piqued interest further. The trailer of the film Toilet Ek Prem Katha is out and seems to promise a thoroughly watchable film that touches on important, sensitive social issues. Here is everything you wanted to know about the film and why #ToiletEkPremKathaTrailer is rightfully creating a buzz.
With all our pretensions to development and modernity, a significant proportion of the Indian population still defecates in the open. There are several issues: access, traditional taboos and abject poverty are just a few of them.
It is always the woman who is charged with upholding social morality and required to be behave in a certain way because she is the ‘izzat’ of the family. However, that same family sees no contradiction in having that upholder or honour and morality defecate out in the open. The film also appears to highlight this hypocrisy.
Apart from Akshay Kumar, the film stars Bhumi Pednekar as the love of his life and the woman he marries only to have unexpected impediments to true love! The film also stars popular TV actor Sudhir Pandey as Akshay’s father in the film. Anupam Kher, Sana Khan and Divyendu Sharma will also be seen in the film.
With Swach Bharat being a theme close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's heart, the theme of this film was bound to strike a chord. A personage no less than the PM of the country has lauded the film as a good effort to further the message of cleanliness.
…and everyone loves a love story! Our hero apparently is desperate to get married and we see him making sheep’s eyes at Bhumi’s character.
The film also touches on some other quirks and traditions of our society. The fact that being ‘manglik’ requires people to marry trees and animals, how people with traditional beliefs chafe at the idea of having a bathroom in the same area as the holy ‘tulsi’ and so on, appear to be touched on in a humorous, non-judgmental way.
Bollywood wields great power because of its reach and massive popularity. This time it seems that this is being put to good use to change social mindsets and bring about welcome change. The film also appears to touch on social evils such as corruption.
Based on a true story about a woman who refused to live in her husband’s home until he built her a toilet, has become a huge hit on social media.
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