Have you seen the movie Dostana? If not then go buy a ticket of the film & grab the seat to feel the experience of a new age of Dostana. You should watch the film for three reasons ; 1) To see Abhishek Bachchan's Gay act, 2) To watch John abraham-the real eye candy of the movie & 3) To experience the use of metrosexualism as a mean to lure audience to the cine hall. The film starts with the peppy number by Visahl n Sekhar, Shut up n bounce where you can hardly notice Shilpa Shetty's hot bod. Ask why? Because it is John and his sun tanned physique which steal the show. The film scored a six in the dream sequence where Abhishek told a story to Priyanka's aunty to explain how he & John met. Abhishek's gay acting in that dream sequence made the audience to burst out in laugh. It was expected that Big B's son would be the last one to act gay. We all know that Bollywood Industry is hardly dominated by the actresses. The actresses are either use as showpieces by wearing designer skimpy clothes & dance to sexy numbers to titillate the audience or some actresses with strong acting potential picked up for parallel cinemas. But film like Dostana proved that Commercial Bollywood films now don't need sexy heroins any more, our masculine hunks can be good enough. Although the trend setter of metrosexualism in undoubtedly Shahrukh Khan - hands down! Remember the bath tab sequence in Don? Or the ad which aired few years back, SRK in bath tab with few sexy heroins of him? He was the trend setter of male item number as well. Dard e disco undoubtedly gave complex to even Rakhi Sawant! But talking about Dostana the scene where Abhishek & John kissed to say 'sorry' to Priyanka grabbed our eyeballs. Karan Johar's production has given conservative India a new turn. Kissing scenes in Hindi films are no more to talk about. But two men are kissing- is surely worth a watch in India! It seems from last few Hindi films that being Gay is trendy at last. Take Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion, Page 3, Farhan Akhtar's Honeymoon travel's pvt ltd,Sanjay Suri starrer My brother Nikhil as examples. But why women in same sex relationships are not celebrated? Except Deepa Mehta's Fire or a big flop Girl friend, we hardly have movies on lesbian relations. In a country where 37% of the people are homosexual why don't film makers make movie on lesbianism? It was found that Indian heroins are quite apprehensive in portraying same sex relationship on screen. But we surely want to see some bold movies in the coming years on women in same sex relationship.
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4 comments:
i liked your idea of lesbian movies .....
it has been long time scince we watched girlfriend though it was a flop....!
(jokes apart)
in our country these types of bold movies are rarely made...
and we would really appriciate, if these aspect of our society are being highlightened and brought to light....
it would be a tribute to the so-called socially backward sect.
but, we've got to thank Deepa Mehta for taking some bold steps in Indian Cineworld..
Really a very good blog, very articulate writing, do keep it up, just like your academics.
oooooffffffff, I really appreciate Agnibesh' penchant for movies of such 'bold' variety. Though Dostana has nothing to do with homosexuality, but still the same has been drawn as a parallel. Male bonding is very natural and, hence, a distinction should be made between homosexuallity and male bonding. Though Agnibesh has discreetly expressed his desire to see such 'bold' films and more films on these topics are made, perhaps the merrier, but I think, though such sexual orientation are part of societies across the globe, but such importance should not be given as is being accorded through this blog. Anyway, Ankita, how come you have become interested in such topics also. It really amazes me no end. And it is really alarming to know that that there are so many bi-sexual students at our College. Ha ha ha ha just joking with both of you, kichhu mone koris naa.
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