Qala in Qala

 Qala in Qala

Some movies are remarkable, they force your mind to endure and think. Qala is one of them, it is the harsh reality that women are still looked as a mere weak entity, who can never complete with the men. No matter how hard women try she would be considered as a last option, because she isn’t a good fit, she is dumb and weak.

Qala, the main protagonist, was really talented and had a melodious voice but still she cannot impress her mother, just because she could not sing like her father. She could not inherit the legacy. She can just be a background singer, or can be married off to someone. She cannot live with her mother, because woman can only live with their husband, that is where they belong. The movie from the beginning scene is the enduring and suffering of Qala, how she faced her mother’s strict punishments and harsh character.

Jagan was an orphan kid, for whom singing was like living, a way of life. His voice mesmerized her mother and he was adopted by her mother. Now she gave him every opportunity, on the other hand Qala sits in the background thinking she is invisible and unheard. She tries a lot to gain attention but it all goes in vain. Just to earn her mother’s love she did a wrong deed, she mixed the mercury ball, which was in her game in the hot milk and gave it to his adopted son whom her mother regarded as her own, Jagan, and he lost his voice. For Jagan music was his way of living, he sang for himself. In contrast to Qala, for her singing was the way to win her mother’s love. She sang for her mother, because all her life she just wanted her mother’s love.

She was mentally abused as a child, which is clearly depicted in the movie and in reality, the reason why women are under confident. This mental abuse was so prominent that even after she succeeded in her singing career, she never believed in herself, because her mother never loved her back. In her last times, we can see that Qala and Jagan both died of depression and the lost cause for which they lived, they both suffered from the voices in their heads. These voices and enduring which they shared with no one, because no one knew what they endured.

The earning of love cost her own life, her entire life she longed for her mother’s love, she got it but, in the process, she committed suicide. That’s how she earned her mother’s love. She killed herself, just like Jagan, who killed himself because he couldn’t sing anymore. She killed herself because she could never attain her mother’s love, leaving both characters in such a heartbreaking despair that they took their life.