Why does trishna kill herself

This again is strongly realistic because victims are often so ashamed and confused by their abuser that they suffer in silence. What I loved about this film is the unsaid understanding that Trishna was aggressively raped and abused, even though she never vocally describes how she feels or what happened to her. I certainly felt the audience understood her rape all the same. But he looks like a nice guy?

Maybe they accept that rape happens in other countries and cultures but are unaware of our own rape culture, that 1 in 20 women in their own country are raped.

They either have to have been there, or you have to show them. With nobody at all aware of the abuse she went through, for Trishna the only way out is to kill herself. She knows nobody will understand and she will only continue to suffer if she tells the authorities. In Tyrannosaur, Olivia reports her crime and is jailed in punishment. Two very sad endings for these two women, who just so happened to be paired up with a rapist arsehole for a boyfriend.

Disclaimer: This post was written by a Feministing Community user and does not necessarily reflect the views of any Feministing columnist, editor, or executive director. Feministing is a labor of love and all our staff have other full-time jobs to support their work on the site. All this expressed, I do admit that the last scene of the film was remarkable. The question though is, why did she kill Jay at all? It was an unplanned, hot-blooded murder. The avant-garde, alternative figures of Bollywood were also present in the film Kalki Koechlin and Anurag Kashyap.

Trishna is a really good film and I would definitely watch it again, for its unique story. But I wish that Winterbottom had paid more stress on presenting the internal conflicts Trishna went through while travelling a road assigned to her by her parents, her society and her perplexed lover.

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Email required Address never made public. Ya i kind of agree but i think he was always fairly cold towards her just not to that level. If you remember even before she told him about the abortion he made her leave her family to go to Bombay maybe "made" isn't the right word but she wasn't in the best situation and then told her how he had slept with two other people while he was looking for her so clearly he wasn't really dedicated to her even at that point.

Yes the abortion seemed to push him away and yes the dad had something to do with it but he always was a very controlling person think when she went to the party and he tracked her down and then later when she went to her aunt's and he tracked her down again.

Finally by the end he saw her as an object that he could have when ever he wanted and even told her basically your a hooker, your single and your my maid so according to the Kama Sutra i own you. Now aside from that he also forced her to dance for him on their anniversary and in my opinion it kind of looked like a raped her in that last scene i mean he had her in a chock hold, forced her to kiss him and she did not look to be enjoying any thing that followed that either i mean she was even crying at one point So naturally filed with all that rage and hurt from loving someone who ended up being so abusive and knowing he would never let her go she killed him and left.

Now the problem with that was she had nowhere to go as her family didn't want her back at that point. It's a shame this movie didn't get higher ratings if you think about it or can relate to it this was a really well done and emotional movie. After reading a lot other comments that confuse me and I disagree with, I finally found one that speaks sense. Jay was never THAT into trishna.

Yes he offered her a lot of financial help, but isn't that what guys do when they want to get a woman in bed? Especially when these things are a piece of cake for Jay, who is extremely wealthy. Trishna's unusual beauty and obedience kept drawing Jay back, but if Jay had pure love for her, he wouldn't have let her go in the first place when he had sex with her or Jay would have found her much sooner than her having an abortion after being three months pregnant and then moving again to work for her uncle.

You are very right in saying that Jay was always a controlling man and I would add 'selfish' too. His seemingly nice gestures at the start were all for his own benefit to sleep with a beautiful woman but he never really considered Trishna's situation.

I think the film made perfect sense as long as you don't look at it as Jay having genuine love for Trishna. I was always under the impression that he was infatuated with her; not in love.

And he didn't really treat her that great, even before they moved to that tacky hotel; they just didn't make his mistreatment obvious and dramatic like you would see in a Lifetime Movie: he left her in Mumbai without contacting her, didn't disclose their relationship to his father as he promised, and he followed her though it worked to her benefit that night.

Plus, if he were so in love with her, he would've married her , regardless of the caste system hardly applies anyway given that he's westernized from growing up in England. Totally agree with that viewpoint. Trishna is a sexual object from day one to the last. The romance Jay and her live in Mumbai allows her to express a glimpse of agency and her own, emerging subjectivity through dancing but he totally disapproves of her wishes to become a professional dancer - all she represents in his eyes is a domesticated housewife, a maid in contemporary disguise, a beautiful show-off in public and a whore in his bed.

This masculine symbolism of Woman - the representation of the 'Other' as object, as having no subjectivity in her own right - is later suggested by Jay's reading and implementation of the text of the Kama Sutra. Is Winterbottom a feminist? Probably not, but he raises issues about the female condition in general, which are exacerbated in countries where poverty and traditional family customs remain closed allies against women's emancipation.

The fact that Jay doesn't consider marrying her in spite of having no attachment to indian traditional values, suggests a perduring, in perverse contemporary forms, of British post-colonialist stance towards India - deprived women and children remaining those who suffer the most from it.

Also note the comments he made like when he shows her the house and says "here is the kitchen where you will be" something like that and saying no to people asking whether he wants her to be a dancer are all signs of him being abusive and controlling even during their happy days in Mumbai.

I think this is a great movie and under rated. Great comments here. That is when I realized the story is not as simple as I thought.

Sure, she was beautiful, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to get a beautiful woman in bed — as long there is something more to it. But he was only attracted to her beauty and knew he could easily use her family situation to his advantage and have some fun.