When I read the movie review of Badhaai Do, I felt nauseated a bit at how it might have been portrayed on screen. For long, movie-wood, across all of those regional woods and beyond, have depicted people from LGBT community, either as weirdos or enjoyed many a slap stick comic scenes on their cost. Do we really know how to recognize someone as belonging to this community on face? Unless some one comes out, is it even possible to know? If without knowing or revealed to us, if they can gel in the crowd, at least superficially to others if not themselves, what difference it makes once their identity is known? At the outset, it looks more like a trust issue, if someone after all those years suddenly reveals themselves as different from how others perceived them. But if they themselves weren’t aware and has to go through lot of emotional upheavals to understand their orientation, how can others expect an early or truthful portrayal? Logically and for all practical purposes, orientation of an individual hardly should matter to anyone else but them. I don’t think it is natural for two people from same gender to get into a wedlock as per societal demands that exists at the moment. It might be biology that determined this arrangement. Like democracy, possibly the majority determined the norm. Quite sure had those on the other side been on the larger side, the shoe would naturally be on the other foot. Off late there has been a spurt of calls to make everything politically correct – be it making gay superman, lady James Bond etc. While there are still multiple laggards in setting things right front – we are yet to have a black superman or a colored James Bond, rather than painting the existing characters in a different color, these communities need their own characters or heroes to showcase to the world. I feel they should come up with their own central characters, role models, whom people can relate to, understand the struggles and how they overcame those issues and challenges, which wouldn’t just be an inspiration for their own community but an iterative eye opener for the majority population as well. Coming back to the trigger behind the post, I loved the movie and haven’t watched it fully yet, but it was so funny and so casually made, it felt no different from any mainstream romantic love story. Would post a separate one on the movie as a review, basis how the rest of the movie shapes up.
Got this as a forward. Made interesting reading and made lot of sense too :) check it out. Just two years after our marriage, hubby brought up the idea of asking mother to move from the rural hometown and spend her remaining years with us. Hubby's father passed away while he was still very young. Mother endured much hardship and struggled all on her own to provide for him, see him through to a university degree. You could say that she suffered a great deal and did everything you could expect of a woman to bring hubby to where he is today. I immediately agreed and started packing the spare room, which has a balcony facing the South to let her enjoy the sunshine and plant greenery. Hubby stood in the bright room, and suddenly just picked me up and started spinning round and round. As I begged him to put me down, he said: "Lets go fetch mother." Hubby is tall and big sized and I love to rest on his chest and enjoy the feeling that he could pick me up at any moment put the...
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