Women trying to work again after becoming wives and mothers are an issue that Bollywood has not examined in detail. Panga's protagonist is a former Kabaddi player whose life has been plagued by the boredom of everyday family life and the job. The fact that Jaya Nigam, played with absolute conviction by Kangana Ranuat, dares to dream of an earlier life in which she was in the spotlight is a thematic victory. You can check Panga online streaming partner news here.
But how difficult it is for a Bollywood mainstream film to focus on a woman like Jaya is shown in the long time to the point where she can tell her husband: When I think of you, I feel happy. When I think of Adi (her son) I feel happy. But when I think of myself, I'm not so happy.
At this point we are fully prepared to support Jaya because we have seen how she does the stuff of the middle class, working mothers every day of her life: getting up early, packing the Tiffins, taking the child to school, making sure the house runs smoothly and takes itself to the office just to deal with an irritated boss. Well, we say she did it all with a smile, now she can go and do her thing if she wants to. And we only say that because the push-and-shove comes from the son (Bhasin) and from the husband (Gill).
Phew. What if Jaya's bosom friend and Kabaddi buddy Meenu (Chadha), who is still married to the sport so that she doesn't have time for a real "Shaadi" who is the "heroine"? And whoever chose Ghar and Grihasti-Jaya was the one who played a supporting role? What if Jaya, horrified, had left her family, hadn't found enough fulfillment, and happily gone her way? No, we're still a long way from this kind of film.