Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Learnings from Madhupur

I'm in the 5th trimester of a fairly well known b-school in India and anyone who's been in one knows its absolutely the most lazed out time of life. An average day includes 2-3 movies, around 12-15 hours of sleeping and if the day is really hectic, then maybe an hour long lecture..
Life is good and I'm following this schedule very strictly. Saw a movie called 'Somethings Gotta Give' yesterday, fairly interesting though a lil incestuous with the guy (Jack Nicholson) making out with the daughter (Amanda Peet) and then later on with her mom (Diane Keaton), but then when was incestuous not interesting..
The movie is pleasant though, which is surprising, possibly because it was a romantic comedy and lately I've been driven to watch those very intently. They are comforting yet, disturbing in a way with all the gooey mushiness that encompasses the people who fall (or rise) in love. So much that nothing is clear, and everything is seen through rose coloured glasses (that may be the filter used with the camera but who cares). In the past two months I've seen over 12 such crazily in love kind of movies, some diabetically sweet, others which confused 'awesome and totally hysterical sex' with love and some that were genuinely nice.
But the one that tops my list is a romantic comedy that I havent seen yet and incidently, wasnt supposed to be a comedy, but since I've heard so much about that movie, I can visualise it in all its glory despite having spent 175 bucks in a multiplex.
Vivaah, the journey from engagement to marriage is the movie and is what I believe the manual for all the women who wish to get married in the next few hundred years.
A shy girl ( please note, shy equals never letting the man you love see the color of your eyes, coz ur eyelids are never raised high enough and your decibels should be just loud enough so that he can hear you murmur those three golden words....' jal lekar aaon?')
But then I guess, thats how Madhupur girls are raised, and if you'd read the controversial article on Forbes by Michael Noer on how career women make disastrous wives., you'd nod your head in approval. (Must read by the way, makes for a great conversation!)
The article starts with "
Guys: a word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career."

So you can well figure what its about.. it says that women who dont have jobs make better wives, mothers, home-makers and in essence all men should keep a safe distance from those who do.
So what it is it about shy, murmuring women who's shopping haunts are the 'gali ka mela' and who think kissing will impregnate them, heir colony attractive to men? A question I've been wondering about since a really long time...
Is it the Indian culture that they've been marinated in that makes the guys like them? Maybe it is their nauseating shyness that makes them think 'mujhe haq hai?'
Maybe its their attitude of never questioning the status quo and always going the 'chup-chaap aansoo pi loongi' way, that gives a sense of power to the man.
Maybe shutting up and not having an opinion is what you need to get a man.
Maybe I should just stop writing this, douse my face in a litre of make up and murmur my way out of the hostel...
Will let u know if it works!

1 comment:

Rohan Kumar said...

Gothi, Thers nuthing incestuous about the movie "Somethings Gotta Give". Jack is seeing a girl who is not his daughter but of his daughters age. So he is basically not doing incest. That he finally ends up with her mother was just Reeves bad luck!
Tum log faltu hi na choti cheezon ka pahad bana deti ho :)