Govinda Naam Mera

It's trailer suggests it isn't another sexist iteration of a married man juggling two heterosexual relationships. But that's misleading.

Even if she chose to be with her husband in the end, she certainly bears an indiscernible label of being a woman with [an] ‘unscrupulous’ character in the minds of the audience… Govinda and Suku — two aspiring choreographers — are denied payment by a rich gangster despite fulfilling their part of the deal and delivering him a music video for his spoilt, untalented son’s auto-tuned single. What the movie does venture close to getting right is the disposable manner in which the rich treat the poor, who are forced to cut their losses and move on because they have no recourse. It’s hardly surprising, then, that its primary female characters — including Gauri, Suku, Asha (Govinda’s mother, played by Renuka Shahane), and Manju (Govinda and Gauri’s domestic worker, played by Trupti Khamkar) — either titillate, or scheme to defraud “innocent” men, or do both. Although she committed almost as many crimes as Govinda — often in partnership with him — he “teaches her a lesson” for being unfaithful. [words](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLhEKMtnUiE) of film critic Sucharita Tyagi, makes the filmmaker’s misogyny apparent. However, it belongs in the 1990s and 2000s — in the era of Saajan Chale Sasural (1996), Masti (2004), No Entry (2005), and Sandwich (2006). “It’s hardly surprising, then, that in real life, women often [feel guilty](https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/relationships/265110-two-pronged-relationship-advice-leaving-abusive-husband/) for leaving even abusive husbands.” However, the dowry appears to be forgiven as soon as Govinda is willing to reconcile with her. The moment Govinda finds out Suku isn’t really in love with him, Gauri is happy to take him back. The titular character, Govinda (played by Vicky Kaushal), had been cheating on his wife, Gauri (played by Bhumi Pednekar), for over three years. In a twist that suggested she wasn’t a helpless homemaker longing for her philandering husband’s affections, it seemed like Gauri was carrying on with an affair of her own.