Other similar clichés peppered through the movie made it a commercial hit 15 years ago. A makeover scene with Amrita Rao (Sanjana) transforms the “tomboy” like character into the ‘perfect’ Indian woman with straight hair and ‘better’ clothes, after which Zayed Khan (Lucky) falls head over heels for her, like clockwork. Main Hoon Na is not an exception to this criticism. Songs are sexist, portrayals are reductive, and the plot unfailingly focuses on the man and his perspective. I begin this defense with a disclaimer: most older Indian cinema (and even now) is tainted with narrow ideas about beauty, femininity, and gender. In Can’t Let Go, we revisit the nostalgia around our favorite pop culture moments that haven’t aged well.
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