Guys, I am sorry to have to tell you this but Shilpa Shetty died in Baazigar (1993) for no reason. There is no reason why SRK needed to date both the sisters. If he had successfully deceived Shilpa, then why couldn’t he have taken her to the race tracks, impressed the father-in-law, and carried out the rest of his plans without having to kill 3 random people in broad daylight? Why did he have to have a long drawn relationship with Shilpa if he was going to use Kajol anyway?! Also, why did he have to change his eye color? Literally no one other than dead Shilpa had seen his green eyes!! (Vicky/Ajay was no criminal mastermind).After killing Shilpa, SRK shouts at his mirror reflection to offer a flimsy explanation for the fake loving and real killing of Shilpa: “I deceived you (Shilpa) because I had to gain your father’s trust. And destroying him (father) is the purpose of my life.” What?! Deceiving Shilpa had nothing to do with gaining the father’s trust. And we cannot assume that Shilpa’s death destroyed the father in any way because the father was pretty unaffected. When Kajol suspects that Shilpa might have been killed and asks the father to get the “commissioner” uncle to investigate, the father declines because “what would society say if they learned that Shilpa was DATING A GUY and was planning to get married to him? Who would marry you (Kajol) if this got out” Dafaque?! A ridiculous excuse undercut in the very next scene by Kajol’s good friend and clueless police inspector, Siddharth, when he says, “why would she (Shilpa) hide it if she was having a relationship”? Seriously! Why would she? And why did we, as the audience, not see the black holes in the plot? Because the same father was literally super excited to get the other daughter married to this same killer guy within 5 minutes of Shilpa’s death! There is only one plausible answer: because, super hot debutant Shilpa Shetty, who had no Bollywood connection, had to be in the movie, but couldn’t be the heroine because Kajol. Siddharth had to randomly and very awkwardly start showing romantic feelings towards Kajol at her engagement party because Anu Malik had to use his unrequited love song and Vinod Rathod had to wear the ostentatious jacket to sing it. Moral of the film: Nepotism has been killing art for ages.
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