Monday, November 24, 2014

...But I won't do that

Lead actors of Jamai Raja: The ludo-players
I have repeatedly been told by my friends that I shouldn't use my brains while watching TV soaps. But I cannot help myself. And once I have really paid attention, something definitely sticks. Yesterday, I was watching one such show that is my constant companion during breakfast.
So the lead actors are married but the marriage hasn't yet been consummated. Now it shouldn't be anybody's business but like a cousin on the show pointed out, "What do you do then? Play ludo?"
None of our business really, as to what a couple does within the four walls of their bedroom. But as far as TV shows or movies go, where does one draw the line? You show a couple courting, getting married. And then what? Do you show them getting intimate. Or do you show them "waiting for the right moment" like in this show I am talking about? Personally, I feel if their marriage isn't what the show/movie is about, we should forget about bedroom scenes, we can let the viewers draw their own conclusions.
I remember when I was a kid, movies wouldn't show even a kiss happening so we would be forced into a garden where the couple would go behind a tree and the branches would shake. Or there would be a bee sitting on a flower.
As I reached my teens, we had become more liberal. So there were these very awkward moments when, say, a Dimple Kapadia would squirm underneath a very hairy Anil Kapoor on screen while our parents didn't know which way to look and we wondered what exactly happened on such shoots _ did they go all the way or were they just acting and stopped the moment the director yelled "CUT!"
Anyway, so this show I was watching. It had another gem coming. The woman tells her husband: "You aren't like most men who would marry just to get physical(!) But you, you love me lots."
I have an issue with that. Would most men risk marriage just so they could get physical? In fact, I think it's the other way round, isn't it? Men would rather get physical than get stuck in marriage. Also, isn't getting intimate just another way of showing your love?
Maybe life's come a full circle and as I reach my 40s, I will have to watch bees pollinating flowers all over again! After all, the man who really loves his wife "won't do that" till the "right moment."

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