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{{short description|1982 film by B. R. Ishara}}
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| name = Log Kya Kahenge
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| director = [[B. R. Ishara]]
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| starring = [[Shabana Azmi]]<br/> [[Shatrughan Sinha]]<br/>[[Sanjeev Kumar]]
| music = [[Kalyanji-Anandji]]
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1982}}
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'''''Log Kya Kahenge''''' ({{Trans|What Will People Think?}})<ref name="Rai2005">{{cite book|last=Rai|first=Vinay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8RluAAAAMAAJ&q=Kahenge|title=Rethinking India: toward an Indo-US partnership concord: changing hearts & mindsets|publisher=RF Publications|year=2005|isbn=978-81-902759-0-3|page=287}}</ref> is a 1982 Indian Hindi-language film produced and directed by [[B. R. Ishara]].<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen1999">{{cite book|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Ashish|last2=Willemen|first2=Paul|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofi0000raja|url-access=registration|access-date=7 June 2012|year=1999|publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> It stars [[Shabana Azmi]], [[Shatrughan Sinha]] and [[Sanjeev Kumar]] in pivotal roles and also features [[Navin Nischol]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/cast/id/505974 | title=LKK Movie Overview | work=[[Bollywood Hungama]] | access-date=15 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2296365831.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301121807/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2296365831.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 March 2016|title=Filmography: Navin Nischol|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]] via [[HighBeam Research]] {{subscription required}}|date=19 March 2011|access-date=7 June 2012}}</ref> The title of the film, "Log Kya Kahenge", is documented as a common stigma facing women in Indian society who challenge pre-arranged marriages and are expected to behave in a certain manner. The film deals with themes of murder and adultery.

==Plot==
Roma is forced into a pre-arranged marriage with a widower. She comes to detest her husband and his son and the life that has been enforced upon her. She begins an affair with another man. One day her stepson discovers her with the other man and she kills him to prevent him from telling her husband. Ultimately she also kills her husband as her mental health declines and she becomes insane.

==Cast==
* [[Sanjeev Kumar]] as Dr. Jeevan
* [[Navin Nischol]] as Gopal
* [[Shatrughan Sinha]] as Ram Sinha
* [[Shabana Azmi]] as Roma
* [[Aruna Irani]] as Sadhna

==Themes and reception==
The name "Log Kya Kahenge" (What will People Think) stems from a common Indian yardstick and social stigma against women who may challenge social norms of marriage and other expected forms of behaviour, a "stress-inducing" expectation surrounding women and arranged marriages.<ref name="Das2002">{{cite book|last=Das|first=Gurcharan|title=The elephant paradigm: India wrestles with change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztkSAQAAMAAJ|access-date=7 June 2012|date=1 November 2002|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-302910-6|page=122}}</ref><ref name="SinghGuha2000">{{cite book|last1=Singh|first1=Sunny|last2=Guha|first2=Tapas|title=Single in the city: the independent woman's handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67AoAAAAYAAJ|access-date=7 June 2012|year=2000|publisher=Penguin Books|page=23|isbn=9780141000244}}</ref><ref name="(India)2007">{{cite book|title=The non-fiction collection: twenty years of Penguin India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WNULAQAAMAAJ|access-date=7 June 2012|year=2007|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-310356-1|page=101}}</ref><ref name="Chaudhary2004">{{cite book|last=Chaudhary|first=Nandita|title=Listening to culture: constructing reality from everyday talk|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcxhAAAAMAAJ|access-date=7 June 2012|year=2004|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3200-0}}</ref> One author said "In our sheltered Indian middle class homes, for every woman there is an unconsciously used Indian yardstick called, 'log kya kahenge'."<ref name="Women work">{{cite book|title=Women work and environment: studies in gender geography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cT7aAAAAMAAJ|access-date=7 June 2012|year=1998|publisher=Bangladesh Geographical Society and IGU Commission on Commercial Activity|isbn=978-984-716-000-9|page=236}}</ref>

The film was not amongst the blockbusters of 1982 and neither is it regarded today as a classic of Hindi cinema, remaining largely forgotten. However, the film draws upon the concept of women and challenging society and is therefore remarkable for the social situation of the era. The film gained some notoriety for the scene in which [[Shabana Azmi]] throttles her husband's son to prevent him from informing her husband of her affair with another man, and shocked viewers in India. Shabana herself said light-heartedly of the scene, "I remember seeing that completely evil look on my face ... and I was shocked by it. Was I capable of such evil?"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/from-sati-savitri-to-the-slutty-savvy-news-bollywood-kkfvHCfjgfi.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203100843/http://www.sify.com/movies/from-sati-savitri-to-the-slutty-savvy-news-bollywood-kkfvHCfjgfi.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2013|title=From Sati Savitri to the Slutty Savvy
|author= Jha, Subhash K |date=23 September 2004|publisher=Sify.com|access-date=7 June 2012}}</ref> The ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' cited the scene amongst Hindi cinema's best-known and best-loved mother-oriented "moments of magic on the screen".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1476703301.htmll|title=Where have the good old filmi mothers gone?|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]] via [[HighBeam Research]] {{subscription required}}|date=11 May 2008|access-date=7 June 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> "The Women of South Asian Descent Collective" highlights the theme of divine justice in the film, saying, "In Log Kya Kahenge, the heroine takes the ultimate step in asserting her right to choose her spouse: she murders the husband forced on her. Consequently, she is punished not only by the law of the land but by divine justice – she becomes insane."<ref name="(Organization)1993">{{cite book|author=Women of South Asian Descent Collective (Organization)|title=Our feet walk the sky: women of the South Asian diaspora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4NpAAAAMAAJ|access-date=7 June 2012|year=1993|publisher=Aunt Lute Books|isbn=978-1-879960-32-9|page=61}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
Music to the film was scored by [[Kalyanji-Anandji]].

{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Song !! Singer
|-
| "Tere Bina Main, Mere Bina Tu, Dono Jee Na Paaye"
| [[Kishore Kumar]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
|-
| "Teri Parchhaiyan Meri Raahon Mein Hai"
| [[Mohammed Rafi]]
|-
| "Mere Pyar Ki Nakaami Ne Mujhe Kis Mod Pe"
| [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist|colwidth=33em}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0230465}}

[[Category:1980s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:1983 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Arranged marriage]]
[[Category:Films scored by Kalyanji Anandji]]
[[Category:Films about women in India]]
[[Category:Films directed by B. R. Ishara]]

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