Sunday, January 10, 2016

What is Love? (Bollywood Style)


What is Love?

Idea of love is varied. But mostly, the Indian concept of love is very ‘Bollywoodiya’. And I would take the liberty of stating that Bollywood has played with the minds of many an Indian youth, adolescent and adult alike.

As much as one would deny, an average Indian is very influenced by the Indian cinematic experience called Bollywood. The moment you watch a movie, you want to relate the characters to you, your loved ones, and your life. Any blur of similarity seems striking. Parallels are drawn. The central character is considered to be oneself. Ah! How gullible.

So you would argue, why is it wrong? What is the harm if extrapolations are made? Why would it be the cause of dismay? I will tell you why. We still live in a generation where relationships matter. I would again make the gumption of stating that most guys of my generation still yearn for that elusive relationship. In the pursuit of this we consider the little affection shown from a woman to be true love. Silly, but true. We make our own situations. We dream of our own possibilities. We make a life out of the moment. Add Bollywood to this. We base our life on that story of the movie. We think that this is how our life together with this woman would probably turn out to be. We base our desires on the themes shown.

Just as one is busy making life out of this moment, the other person is probably picturing this with someone else in mind. Same story, different people. You play the song. You close your eyes. You are lost in the imagination of which you have an inkling that it is too good to be true. You persist. You don’t stop yourself from imagining. Sweet. Only to realize how miserable this has made you in the end.

We all are built to fail. We all are built to fade. We all are built to die someday. But we persist. Hoping that, you know, one day its going to be worth it. That one day, all the suffering would come out good. Someone said what good can possibly come if you don’t even try. True, makes sense. In the end, all that will remain is the memories. Good or bad, but ones that can be recalled and made stories out of. So thanks Bollywood. You are not that bad after all. You do feed on voyeuristic tendencies of ours. But be good. May be its not such a bad deal after all :)

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