Geet: The Girl a Nation Loved
T ill today, even after complex heart-wrenching movies like Tamasha, Jab We Met, the funny and endearing romance remains Imitiaz Ali's best work. Most of the credit for the insane popular appeal of the movie goes to our favorite sikhni from Bhatinda Geet Dhillon. When the movie released in 2007. Geet was all everyone could talk about. The clothes she wore became a fashion statement, her hook steps a regular in every sangeet. After a long time in Indian Cinema, a female character enjoyed the love and adoration of the entire country. Geet Dhillon was not the kind of woman, you'd expect Indian audiences to like. She spoke too much to even accidentally come across as shy, swore like a sailor, talked incessantly about herself to strange men she met on trains, and most importantly, she put herself first. She was as diametrically opposed to the concept of a "good girl" in India as one could be. She also commits the greatest sin, a woman can in a Bollywood movie ie love