Positive Lifeskills

This is my radical blog. Tread with caution here.I strongly feel that happiness is so simple, yet we humans have made it so elusive.

Friday, June 06, 2008

Modern permissiveness towards pure sleeze

There is presently too much sleeze, sexism and nudity on the screen. Today many a girl is ready to bare almost all of her modesty for a few lakh ( or is it crores) rupees.Talking of lakhs and crores reminds me of something. One of the well known personalities ( probably it was GB Shaw ) asked a socialite whether she would spend a night with him for a few billion pounds. She said that she would think about it. He then asked, 'Will you do it for 10 pounds?'. She blew up,' What do you think I am? A whore?'. 'That has already been established', he said,'What we are now trying to establish is your price'. So the celebrity page 3 level has nothing to do with the classification.It remains the same.
Today, you can see more of a woman's body on the public screen than what you could have seen in a mujra in the chowk of Lucknow, about 50 years back. And, mind you, today we are comfortable viewing this public screen nudity, munching bikaneri bhujia with our mothers, sisters and daughters. No problem at all. On the other hand, the mujra of yesteryears could only be seen by cutting away from the family and sneaking to a specifc marked locality of town.
Where are we heading?
Oh, I can see the question coming. Hey, Alok, if you protest against it so much, why do you watch it? Double standards.
I watch it because I enjoy seeing it. However, whatever I enjoy does not become sanctified for public life. I obviously enjoy sex. That does not mean that it becomes right for everyone to have sex in public. C'mon, I am not a benchmark.
When one sees these girls on the screen, I wonder what their fathers and brothers are undergoing watching same. And someday, what about their sons and daughters?
And why am I not passing the same strictures against the shirtless Salman Khans of the screen. Well, it simply is not nauseating enough for me. Let someone who is really shocked, write about it.