Monday, September 9, 2013

Shudh Desi Pyaar - a rather apt commentary

I walked out of the theater with a little smile on my face. A lot's said in this movie. Art they say imitates life. That makes cinema a Polaroid snapshot of the ferment bubbling up in society's beer tankard at that moment.
Sex sells. So the promos spoke, copiously, of sex before marriage.
Instead, this movie vocalizes the desires and changing realities of the institution of marriage amongst people. It speaks of the change within women.
When I asked Audi about the movie, he said that made him want to go out and fall in love again. Must agree that this movie does tend to have that effect.
Besides one feels with the characters instead of for them for a change.
The dialogs are crisp, the backdrops are picturesque and the songs are not redundant.
Both the female protagonists Tara and Gayatri are commentaries on bolder, more free, and independent women where the man still needs to woo but here the man proposes and the girl disposes.
Heart warming to see that sex is not taboo but an expression-and a rather rapid and upfront progression of a 'relationship'.

I've no idea of how the movie will do in the box office hustings but it sure is a nice watch.

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