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Toilet: Ek Prem Katha

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A woman leaves her husband on the first day of their marriage after discovering that he doesn't have a toilet. He desperately sets out on a mission to win back his love by standing up to the age-old traditions and values of India.

Critics Reviews

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Udita Jhunjhunwala Livemint 08/13/2019
Instead of sticking to social satire, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha takes on the mantle of an extended propaganda film-it's just as tiresome, but with better production values and performances. Go to Full Review
Shubhra Gupta The Indian Express 08/03/2019
2/5
If you are making a film that hoists a flag for a strong feminist ideal, then don't waver, and confuse it with stuffing the film with too many issues. Go to Full Review
Namrata Joshi The Hindu 07/11/2018
Here self-conscious obsequiousness gets the better of filmmaking. Go to Full Review
Swetha Ramakrishnan Firstpost 10/10/2023
Things start moving only towards the last few minutes in the film, and by then it's all about Akshay. Bhumi becomes a mere catalyst. This is the biggest issue with Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. Go to Full Review
Anna M.M. Vetticad Firstpost 12/06/2020
1.5/5
Until the pro-government propaganda and Modi spiel ... in the second half, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha drives home an important - even if simplistically handled - point. Go to Full Review
Saibal Chatterjee NDTV 07/24/2020
2/5
It is a classic case of flippant treatment and ham-fisted execution mutilating a serious subject beyond recognition. Go to Full Review
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Waniya S Feb 22 The fact that this is based off of a true story is sad but also kinda makes me happy that the husband took a stand for his wife and actually built her a toilet! See more 09/25/2024 watch full amazing movie online on https://glamcinema.com/ See more 07/12/2021 Esta es una película india muy interesante; la trama es buena y las actuaciones son decentes; el uso del baño es una necesidad básica. See more 07/09/2021 I was very reluctant from watching this film. Nowadays most of Akshay Kumar's films look like they are just going on with the trends. Baby came only when people suddenly started respecting the army, Pad Man came only when the female hygiene became a topic, Gold came just a year before the Tokyo Olympics had to commence and now Ram Setu is coming after jingoism is on a rise. Similarly Toilet: A Love Story came just after the Clean India campaign came in full swing. That's why I was expecting an entire film on a toilet seat. But it turned out to be very different. It begins as a regular Bollywood love story - a rustic man falls in love with an educated woman, he stalks her to submission even though his family doesn't want him to get married to her due to conservative reasons. Everything goes well till that part, until his now wife realises there's no toilet in the house. From there onwards the hero goes out getting a toilet for his wife, even though the conservative society hates the idea. There are a number of ignorant things that the conservative people say throughout the film. First of all, toilet was invented in India. It's very ironic that today India has a lack of toilets. But this thing was never spoken anywhere throughout the film. Then Sudhir Pandey keeps saying that we shouldn't plant a toilet in the garden where we plant a holy basil. So where exactly are you going to defecate? The bushes, where there would be dozens of plants more significant than basil, or the fields where we plant the crops which are eaten by the people all over the world? But this thing is also never spoken throughout the film. I don't have any other problem with this. The acting, story, motive are all good. It's good enough to convince anyone without a toilet to make one, not that it matters anymore since now every Indian household has a toilet. I call films like this a "time-capsule" film, since these are the films that our future generations can look back on and know how our mentality used to be back in the day. See more 09/18/2020 It's based on a true story and highlights a really surprising (to me as a westerner) cultural resistance to change (installation of toilets). I assumed Indians would take up this change without question, and this movie explains why that is not the case. See more avant s 04/14/2020 not as good as i expected it to be but still good. however, why does all bollywood movies have this need to be so long and propagated? See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A woman leaves her husband on the first day of their marriage after discovering that he doesn't have a toilet. He desperately sets out on a mission to win back his love by standing up to the age-old traditions and values of India.
Director
Shree Narayan Singh
Producer
Aruna Bhatia
Distributor
Reliance Entertainment
Production Co
Abundantia Entertainment, Friday Filmworks, Plan C Studios, KriArj Entertainment, White Turtle Studios
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Hindi
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 11, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 21, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.7M
Runtime
2h 35m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)