Love aaj kal

Now don't get scared...m not about to praise or deface the movie with my comments....peace shall pervail..this is to discuss or rather throw light on a very disturbing fact that I have come across in these mushy mushy movies. A little background into my brain before you are subjected to this blog. I have never liked mushy mushy love stories...back in school when every one was going gaga over Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and trying to either impersonate 'naughty' Anjali or the ever more naughtier Shah Rukh ( psst see i don't even remember his name) I was busy doing other things.. Dil To Pagal Hai, KKHH, K3G and host of other films went into the garbage bin for me...and yes I have never admitted it but so did DDLJ...not that i am a heartless creature who does not believe in love shove but just that modern day laila majnu type love stories just don't seem real to poor old me :(...some disorder i suppose looking at the way my generation keeps falling in and out of love with religious beliefs associated with the same. i firmly believe that love makes the world go round but the laila majnu kinds just puts road blocks here there n evrywhere....sigh

okay back to the basics, circa DDLJ, a trend seen then and often repaeted and finally repeated all over again in love aaj kal....the guy just lovessssssss the gurl....the gurl does too, but in a hush hush manner...under the parental guidance and the influence of the family tree...where u can love but can't take matters in ur hands and convice either of the two parties in question as in the family ''let me marry this guy...oh plz plz plz (nahi to main mar jaungi)'' or the guy ''dude nothin can happen between us, seriously, chuck it, all the best( c ya on fb)'' . So this good-for-nothing gurl does fall in love and all that but neither does she own up to her family nor to the guy....dhan tan tan...male dominated cinema in male dominated society...our guy..the knight in shining armour comes to the rescue...gets beaten up....thrown out of the house....but nazrein neechi...then when nothing works out he comes to the gurls house on the weeding day/night....darwaza khula..... ladki ki maa decking her up for her big day....this strange boywalks in with band-aids stuck here n there from the last beating ....tense silence..''maaji/bebe/auntyji/mummyji aapki beti sirf mere hi saath khush reh sakti hai...uski sacchi khushi mere hi saath hai. Aap kya apni beti ko uski khusi nahi doge....bolo...bolo....''

Sob sob motherz heart is melting like mombatti n she packs her daughter off with this guy whose second name is also something unknown to her...Lord o lord...some mummyiez also give the zewarat n the dahej items...now seriously come onnnnnnnnn......which mummy does this yaar....my daddy can still do something this wacky but my mummy can never....

And seriously love is not supposed to be logical but then who said it can be illogical either??? Idhar mummyji n daddyji did not want to even discuss marriage with the boy or his family...or even see his face....n bang on after a couple of mushy dialogues they throw caution to the winds and right on the eve of the great Indian marriage...with the whole society waiting outside to get started with the meals allow their daughter to go....

I cannot finish this blog without bitching a bit about the girl in question....now u gurl u having lived with your folks and been blessed with 10 times better tear ducts could not convince your family while this kal ka chokra from god knows where just lands up and manages to convince your parents...tch tch...shame on you.....

Lord....these laila majnu type stories are just toooooooo much and this trend is like insult to injury......Give me Vikram Betal any day....it at least makes its fictional character clear....