I was intrigued by the promos of this particular movie. It looked appealing. Not that the subject has never been made into a movie, but… this time it was Amitabh in there. You dont need to be a rocket surgeon to know that such a movie would not have done very well in India. What concerns me more than the movie is that it flopped so bad at the box office. Most people I know who’ve seen the movie couldn’t sit through it. Not because it was a bad movie, but because they just couldnt accept the fact that a 60 year old Amitabh was infatuated about an 18 year old Jia Khan.
According to Freud, it is very natural for a girl to be attracted to her own father. This is because she grows up to believe that he is the best man alive. So any man who becomes this father figure in your life can become attractive to you. Or even if that person has not done anything but if you believe that the person has father figure qualities you are naturally attracted to him.
Why is it so difficut to accept this relationship? Just because it does not fit the societal norms does it have to be wrong? Not that i am propogandising such behaviour, but i think we must be tolerant to individual viewpoints. I was watching TV last night and on some channel people were questioning Amitabh about choosing this character. They didnt like the fact that he is playing this so called pervert in the movie Nishabd. I dont understand this! Don’t an artist have the right to choose his part? Does he always have to do what people want? All his life he has played this angry young man “Vijay”. Why should we take away his right to growth as an actor? It was a difficult character to potray. Why cant we appriciate his guts to do something different?
As I said earlier, norms have made us all into sheep. We’ve become very narrow in our perspectives. I guess we could do with some freedom of thought.
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