Berbagi suami

Indonesia 2006

Poster and details kalyanashira

Seen 26 July 2007

Three stories of women who have to share their love with other women for the same. The first dealt with a doctor who is married to a successful businessman and aspiring politician. She knows he has eyes for other women and rumours have always been circulating that the husband has taken a second wife. The truth came out unexpectedly at an official business function. From that moment, she accepts her fate and was not surprised that another woman comes along into her husband's life about ten years later. Her son does not agree with his mother's acceptance of her status in life and things came to a head when the husband had a stroke. We see how the three wives cope.
The second story revolves around a village girl who comes to Jakarta to further her studies. She puts up at a relative's house who already has two wives with a number of children cramped into a two bedroom house. She marries the relative despite her misgivings and plods on being the dutiful wife and help in the expanded household. Lucky for her, she did find a kind of love from an unexpected quarter.
The final story focused on an attractive waitress in a famous duck rice restaurant. She had all the male customers eating out of her hands willingly but her boss was the one who finally managed to wed her. Unfortunately, being Catholics, this arrangement had to be kept a secret until an opportune time came to tell the first wife.
The three stories do not delve too deep into the problems of polygamy as it is a complicated issue. There is no one single solution that applies to every case. But at least in these stories, the women seem to have had the upper hand. There were also no physical abuse depicted. That would take another film.