Heroine, Halcut Jawani in Lowcut.....

Just got back after watching yet another Madhur Bhandarkar film that has his signature style...that is portraying dark side of various professions. Dark...because that gives ample room for showing sale-able elements like skin, sex, scandals, which he does in style. His babes look gorgeous. Kareena is absolutely wonderful. The Halkat Jawani  in Low-cut blouses is highlighted on the celluloid. Explicit scenes and dialogues, extra-marital relationships, casting couch, prostitutes, lesbianism, red-light area.....there is enough for the camera to zoom into wrong...oops right places. I wondered if I missed seeing an A rating because I had taken the kids along..like many other parents. No I did not.

Is the censor board sleeping? Has the Censor Board turned liberal...or is it a kind of FDI in Bollywood? What is A rating reserved for now? What is adult content by the way?  It is not even U/A????????? I completely object to the rating part of the film. We can't subject children to watch this kind of mature and adult content.

Every damn woman in the film...the mother, actress, secretary, PR, wife.....lights up a cigarette in every frame. Like my younger daughter commented...."Its a very suffocating movie. There is so much smoking in the movie." I had to agree to that remarkably witty observation. Madhur Bhandarkar made up for all the films made during that earlier ban on smoking in films.

Contrary to speculations and guesses drawing parallels with any real time heroine, I felt it is a bit of mish-mash of all heroines of past and present. There is bit of everyone's life. The film is quite believable even though Madhur claims it to be fiction. A good watch. A rather serious film for adults so just don't take kids along. Don't go with parents either. (:---) I am not joking. As it is there isn't much to laugh about in the film.

Arjun Rampal looks haggard and old but its okay if/as he playing Shahrukh Khan kind. That character suits. :P ...........Randeep Hooda as a cricketer is likeable but the show stealer is Ranveer Shourie, as Bangali film-maker Tapan da. Looks like wife Konkona Sen has done lots of 'homework' on him.....

Hey come on...I never discuss the story so go watch the film. Its worth all its 'booby traps.' That trapped the Censor guys as well.  But where were the censoring babes??

Pre Marital Sex ???? OMG, OMG !!!!

Preity Zinta is back in town and busy chatting up with tweeple about the hackneyed PMS..pre marital sex. Oolala! That was my the lead story in Deccan Chronicle's Sunday Page co authored with a friend. A well researched article that was published in 1994 in DC sizzled the ground I walked on. The heat was unbearable. The responses ranged from this extreme to that. Many chose to believe our researched facts in the story and others just chose to abuse me and look at me with suspicion and contempt because I was a young unmarried woman writing about it. What people did not understand that I was not endorsing or supporting PMS. 

I had not known the story was already in print for the Sunday edition when I walked into the DC office on a Thursday evening that time and the reactions and the glances of some people were just too much to handle. Uff!!!

As a woman writer I always feel  sensitive to whatever gets written about sex...pre or post marriage. And how the spoken word goes around. From an innocuous SEX column where each one of us have been ticking Male/Female to announce who we are to SEX as a three letter forbidden word the whole perspective changes. 

Read this:

"Navneet Chaurasia ‏ @c_navneet

@realpreityzinta i think it's completely OK as sex is an emotion more out of love than marriage & love does not wait for marriage to happen.

Retweeted by Preity zinta

I would say that there is no point in getting judgmental about it but yes while men communicate to get that sex, women give sex to get that communication right. Somewhere along the line if its only about good sex and not about bonding then it is devoid of emotions. And that can turn a relationship into a nerve breaking stressful one which has a very short shelf life.

There is nothing wrong about sex if it happens to be a building block in a healthy, respectable and a loving relationship without a negative space of guilt!!!

"FMG"-the deepest cruel cut on womanhood...

Female circumcision is NOT islamic - it is African ritual which only the Bohris follow in the subcontinent. It is cruel, inhuman and undemocratic. A girl's clitoris hood is cut off -without anesthesia in most cases. So her sexual desires are subdued . It is terribly unfair and painful and reinforces the stereotype that Islam does not give equal rights to women. Such a barbaric ritual has no place in a progressive community like the Bohras. So we pray to His Highness to ban this ritual.

http://www.change.org/petitions/hh-dr-syedna-ban-female-circumcision-ladkiyon-par-khatna#

Well, I too have just signed the petition to extend my support to my Bohra sisters and more importantly to a whole new generation of our daughters who could be saved from this cruel practice.  

Refer to this article for more info on FMG...the images could disturb you so beware
http://www.indianmuslimobserver.com/2011/11/uproar-over-female-genital-mutilation.html
IMO EXCLUSIVE: Uproar over Female Genital Mutilation: Bohra Muslim woman activist launches campaign...

http://www.indianmuslimobserver.com/2011..

I personally believe in the goodness of religious rituals and practices but any practice that traumatises a fellow human being has to be reviewed and dropped. 

So, my dear friends please support this cause and sign the petition and add a smile to the lips of millions of young Bohra girls who just might be dreading an ordeal of FMG.

GET NAUGHTY NOT DIRTY. SHHHHH...

DIRTY????

Dirty Pictures has made DIRTY the most searched word on the net. I am sure film buffs are waiting eagerly to have a dirty day out. What is dirty? It is highly subjective. I, too am wanting to see the movie because I love this girl called Vidya Balan. She may have been branded for her bad dressing sense but she has that extra something..the X factor that men love and women envy.

Some may find talk about AIDS dirty but you can't help it. Its so mammoth a problem and into our faces that we have to dedicate a day as WORLD AIDS DAY.

Sex is most searched word on the net. Sexy could be the most innocuous because these days kids find even their moms sexy. Hell, they even find some foods sexy. The problem is when they begin searching a song with sexy in the lyrics. The sea of options are just too scary. Similarly dirty has taken a whole new meaning even for the kids. They know what is 'A' movie and what is 'U/A', may be they don't understand the why in it.

Desi Boyz talked about themselves on all TV channels and imparted the knowledge about 'Male Escorts' The female escorts are all over the pages of Newspapers which make way into our homes early mornings. This is all in the open...without censors. Sex even gets talked about on the radio channels.

So guys, sex happens and 'shit happens' all the time, anywhere. Today is World AIDS Day. GET NAUGHTY NOT DIRTY. PLAY SAFE AVOID AIDS.

Reminds me lines from a street play...on Kamasutra.
"Try 64 positons with 1 partner than 1 with 64".....think about it. Makes lotsa sense.