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There are a lot of points in this article which I don’t agree with.
The thing that bugs me the most is the thing you said about Hum Aapke Hai Kaun.
Madhuri Dixit was not forced into the marriage. She had a choice to say NO but she didn’t. Her family members in the film were not the type to force her into a marriage with her late sister’s husband. A major point to consider here is that she did not say NO to her family members for getting married because everyone (including her) thought that it would be the best thing for her to raise her late sister’s infant child. Her “decision” was in the interest of her family and NOT due to coercion or as “compensation”.
Painting everything with the single view point of “anti patriarchy” and “feminism” is not correct. Cultural context needs to be taken into consideration as well as well as the “cultural mindset” prevailing at the time of the shooting of the film.
It is time, we throw out the influence of the islamists, the christianity, the leftist liberatis, where they killed an opinion or way of thinking/idea, just because it did not suit their thinking….. I want such an India today, an India of the past, that is a Hindu India, where every shade of Opinion was allowed to coexist. Every work of art, every idea is a reflection of the times of the society… At different times one may disagree with it….But should it be killed, destroyed, just because one disagrees with it…. I think that is the height of intolerance….Unfortunately the liberals are at the fore front of this….
Bhai tu kis dimension mein jita hai!!
Jo ho gaya usko badal nahi sakte
Whatever racist, chauvinist and non sensical has been shown in these films, was thought and shot several years ago. While there is no justification of these wrong portrayals and logics today, that’s precisely because we have become matured in our thinking than what it was 20/ 30 or 70 years ago. Act of maturity/ responsibility will be to not let such regressive things happen in movies or societies again and also to let thoughts of next generations mature even further, instead of just sulking over mistakes of past. British desh pe raaj karke gaye is baat pe aaj inquilab zindabad bolke kuch nahi hoga !!
No ofence but what this article promts is that if one has to make movies than not only he / she has to keep in mind censors, general public views, rightists, leftists, liberals, and if after all this he is still with a commercially viable script than they have to also keep scribs happy also.
This has to be the stupidest “liberal” move, as a liberal it makes me cringe. I would advise the journalist to not join the bandwagon: i am glad in india we can watch different things without getting hyper partisan over it.
If anyone sees gone with teh wind, it only makes them realize how idiotic scarlett and generally the confederacy was. Now you this will become a political issue.
There are a lot of points in this article which I don’t agree with.
The thing that bugs me the most is the thing you said about Hum Aapke Hai Kaun.
Madhuri Dixit was not forced into the marriage. She had a choice to say NO but she didn’t. Her family members in the film were not the type to force her into a marriage with her late sister’s husband. A major point to consider here is that she did not say NO to her family members for getting married because everyone (including her) thought that it would be the best thing for her to raise her late sister’s infant child. Her “decision” was in the interest of her family and NOT due to coercion or as “compensation”.
Painting everything with the single view point of “anti patriarchy” and “feminism” is not correct. Cultural context needs to be taken into consideration as well as well as the “cultural mindset” prevailing at the time of the shooting of the film.
It is time, we throw out the influence of the islamists, the christianity, the leftist liberatis, where they killed an opinion or way of thinking/idea, just because it did not suit their thinking….. I want such an India today, an India of the past, that is a Hindu India, where every shade of Opinion was allowed to coexist. Every work of art, every idea is a reflection of the times of the society… At different times one may disagree with it….But should it be killed, destroyed, just because one disagrees with it…. I think that is the height of intolerance….Unfortunately the liberals are at the fore front of this….
Pls, don’t write something nonsensical just for the sake of writing a piece. This is the stupidest article I have come across these past few days. ?
Totally!
It is not a good piece by the journalist
Bhai tu kis dimension mein jita hai!!
Jo ho gaya usko badal nahi sakte
Whatever racist, chauvinist and non sensical has been shown in these films, was thought and shot several years ago. While there is no justification of these wrong portrayals and logics today, that’s precisely because we have become matured in our thinking than what it was 20/ 30 or 70 years ago. Act of maturity/ responsibility will be to not let such regressive things happen in movies or societies again and also to let thoughts of next generations mature even further, instead of just sulking over mistakes of past. British desh pe raaj karke gaye is baat pe aaj inquilab zindabad bolke kuch nahi hoga !!
No ofence but what this article promts is that if one has to make movies than not only he / she has to keep in mind censors, general public views, rightists, leftists, liberals, and if after all this he is still with a commercially viable script than they have to also keep scribs happy also.
This has to be the stupidest “liberal” move, as a liberal it makes me cringe. I would advise the journalist to not join the bandwagon: i am glad in india we can watch different things without getting hyper partisan over it.
If anyone sees gone with teh wind, it only makes them realize how idiotic scarlett and generally the confederacy was. Now you this will become a political issue.