the othr day, i was watching a b grade gult flick...the same old melodrama in a set...the same latak jhatak of the heroine...the only modernisation being that the entire story is set in a neo-software scenario...on the whole..the movie was quite entertaining...but there were a few points that made me to go on a thinking spree...
the entire movie was shot from a male chauvinistic pig's point of view (i am definitely not apologising to the male readers...if u find the lines i wrote corny...plz b nice enuf to navigate away from the page!!!)....the whole plot had the girl doing all sorts of mistakes n putting up an egoistic, headstrong behaviour...
there r several other movies of this genre...where the female protagonist is at the mistake end..take for example the dubbed movie "manmadha" whr a psycho maniacal fellow who, by the worst possible chance, is the "hero" goes on killing all those girls who "trick" men...
the problem with these kinds of movies, literature n other advertising media is that they portray the women as vamps giving them a pretty "bitchy" outlook... n worse..the whole social idea has shifted from the "man-is-bad-women-suffers" to "modern-womann-can-safely-be-called-bitch"..(plz forgive the profainity...dint mean to..)
i may sound n seem like a staunch feminist...but the point i am trying to make here is that its not just the girl's fault all the time...neither is it the guys fault...for starts...we can agree that it takes both the male n female to strike differences..so why is it that now a days women are being shown as pandora's sisters?????
in fact..its just a few decades since the women have emerged from the grimy kitchens to take on the "man's" jobs...we neednt have such gestures..driving us back..n its not that we have become tricky n cunning n beastly to torture the man into insanity..
for heavens sake..we still are living in a world where women led shrouded lives in the taliban regime...and where innocent kiranjit ahluwahlias have to go through ten years of domestic violence before fighting back...
it aint a blasphemy to consider the feminity to b equal to men..it aint wrong if the women come out to live their lives...no point degrading...with such gestures...
n there definitely is no harm in considering that women...along with men...are from mars!!
