A brave Bollywood attempt at a socially relevant movie

Considering that cases of sati are still being reported in India as recently as 2008, I thought this was a courageous attempt at educating the vast numbers of filmgoers in India who are still mostly illiterate and ignorant without hitting them over the head with the message. Allowing the young, widowed main female character to remarry was socially daring, and to have the approval come from Bachan, god himself of Indian film, was a good way to get the message across. Yes, in terms of pure film making technique the movie had a corny beginning and the important social message didn't come until the last 10 minutes, but the movie built towards it well. And with this type of unsophisticated audience, I thought it was pretty clever of the film makers to make a movie about this kind of subject at all in such a tradition-bound country. It takes time to effect change, and at least they are trying by using the powerful medium of film.