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A Rumor about a housewife popular for her dancing and cuisine threatens to disrupt her middle-class family’s life, on the eve of her son Tejas’ engagement.
REVIEW
The movie Maja Ma stars a middle-aged lesbian pair and gives us a precious message in the end.
During an animated conversation with her woke, heterosexual daughter, the almost hidden secret of Pallavi Patel (Madhuri Dixit) tumbles out, terrifying to spoil the possibilities of the marriage of her son Tejas (Ritwik Bhowmik) with the daughter (Barkha Singh) of billionaire American-Indian parents.
Madhuri Dixit plays a Gujarati mum of two. During a screaming contest with her very liberal, very testing daughter (Shrishti Shrivastava), she allows slip that she is a lesbian. The truth is revealed not just to her entire family but also to her neighbors.
Esha Hansraj’s parents (Rajit Kapur and Sheeba Chaddha) need a clean, virgin Indian boy for their daughter dearest.
The scene now progresses to India as the Hansraj, with their daughter in tow, get to meet the household to confirm that they are authentic Indians.
Tejas has cleared the questioning but his parents (Madhuri Dixit and Gajraj Rao) have to. As they persist with their very Indian ways, an explosion from the past puts the parties on an alt.
Now Pallavi must clean her name from a viral video that indicates that despite being a doting mother, dedicated wife, and an awesome dancer, she is not that real and perfect.
Tejas is at loggerheads with his sister Tara (Shrishti Shrivastava), who is at a towering distance marriage. They take dramatically contrary stands.
To add to the chaos, another couple Kanchan (Simone Singh) and Moolchand (Ninad Kamat) come into the engagement celebrations.
Maja Ma wants to live in unique and orthodox worlds at the same time. The woman is a closeted lesbian but she has to be the excellent emblem of femininity to be taken seriously.
Madhuri’s Pallavi cooks, cleans, proms, and assists her husband to win local elections, and only then is she considered worthy of a second chance. Then there is the whole bit about lie detector tests, It’s only towards the that Maja Ma turns from the comical to the sensitive.
The movie deserves 3.5 stars out of 5.
The film’s cinematography captures all the feelings, which glance like an artistic portrait. Practically every frame is served with color, Overall the movie is Satisfying. The movie is directed by Anand Tiwari and produced by Amrit pal Singh Bindra. It is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
On the brighter side, the picture boasts some incredible performances. Looking generous in sarees, bindi, and jewelry in place, playing the perfect homemaker and dancing to garbha Tunes, and Madhuri rocks in each frame.
