First things first. I don’t think “Pyaar ka Punchnaama” was a movie in the real sense, it was a
documentary. A soul stirring, tear inducing, emotionally disturbing true story
of the young men of our generation. The movie has nothing that you can call
“exaggeration” or “inspired by true events” the movie itself is “true events”.
I earnestly hope/dream/desire that in near future the movie will be shown by
parents/schools/colleges to the young men entering the delicate stages of live for
saving them their “emotional attayachar”
which all varieties of women might put them through. Mark my words one day the
parents will force their sons to ratto-fy
the dialogues of the movie verbatim.
One of my movie-buff childhood friends “Dozer” did a little bit research on the movie and came out with
astounding results. As per his account the above-mentioned movie was very
poorly reviewed by ALL women movie-critics (of course who’ll like their secrets
to be out like this so publicly). I believe Dozer completely for his interest
in movie-critics is more than the movies themselves (his own dream of being a
movie-critic bite the dust, sadly) You are open to contest the above claim and
I’m open to edit this article if you think otherwise.
Dozer and I were having deep philosophical discussions about
the socio-economic evolution of Indian females of our generation (which we have
been doing since childhood). When we compiled the data of the females of our
environment we came to a conclusion that the social development of Indian women
has been proceeding in a strikingly similar fashion. Girl’s are suddenly
finding virtues in night outs, being cool by all means, being too much
extrovert and flirting with guys, weekend trips to exotic places; drinking/smoking,
long bike trips/long drives and other some issues not fit for description here.
(So before you think I’m propounding Taliban style Shariat Law for women
illuminating high moral standards and degrading the nayi nari- you got me all wrong. I’m all for “open women”
you know for obvious reasons. Imagine being born in India of 1960s- I’d so
prefer to die.)
The one movie whose dialogues have been ratto-fied by almost every girl in India is of Kareena Kapoor’s
character Geet in “Jab We Met” (personal experience so no contesting this claim
at all). So much so that when a friend showed me a video he had made of his
girlfriend (no it’s not that type- you filthy naughty minds) it was of a girl
mimicking in exact same way the dialogues of Kareena Kapoor from the movie- the
whole dialogue with expressions and exact same voice modulation presented
before me by an unknown female- an act I have seen duplicated in the women of my
generation. After this movie a series of movies came (or may be some before
that- don’t hound me on timeline I’m not much of movie chronicler like Dozer).
But look at all these successful movies Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Naa, Break ke Baad
and many many others. (I should call Dozer now to get the list we discussed).
All these movies portray men as some really nice, cute, dormant
kind of person dominated by wild, devil-may-care,
I-don’t-care-for-society’s-status-quo kind of women and then the girls start
believing “OMG That’s me! Let’s go party!”. So the women of our generation have
found their role models (thank God it was not Sunny Leone!) in Kareena Kapoor’s
portrayal of Geet and like characters in other movies. So far so good. So what
am I exactly cribbing against?
Nothing has changed for boys of our generation.
In fact for men the status quo has remained the same since
the Stone Age, may be it has got even worse than that taking into account the
screwed-up sex ratio in our country. The best hunters and gatherers well – “get
the women” for they can provide them with food and security. Look at it now
it’s still pretty much the same.
Boys still have to study (hard) to get good grades to be able
to make an impression on girls in schools, then you get into a place called girl-is-in-future-after-this mode.
The lies you tell yourself then are:
Lie 1:
I’ll get good grades in boards I’ll impress girls prove to be a good hunter
(capable of providing them with food, shelter and security in future) and then
get a super hot girlfriend.
Lie 2: I’ll
get into good engineering college- proof that my future is bright and secure
and then I’ll find a hot girlfriend.
Lie 3: I’ll
get a high paying job proving my hunting skills are good not only in Counter Strike
but in real life too and then I’ll find a good looking girlfriend.
Lie 4: I’ll
get into a mind-fucking-blowing MBA college which has best marketed it’s
highest salary package and hence my superior hunting skills I have inherited
from my fore-fathers will shine brightly in all it’s glory and then in the
glory of my awesomeness I’ll find a girlfriend. You know any girlfriend. This
is the break-up season; I’ll hunt on newly single girls.
Supreme Truth: Beta tumhare liye hamare gaon waali Champa
ka rishta aaya hain. Suna hain BA pass hain aur khaana bahut badiya banaati
hain. Ab toh teri naukri lag gyi hain aa teri shaadi kara doon.
Well unless your father worked hard to crack the IAS exam, or
started a business empire, headed a criminal gang, was involved in a Scam et
al; for a general category student life is tough and getting a girlfriend
tougher. Amen!
