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The past week has been nothing short of shocking with not one but many gory murder stories competing for space in the newspapers. I am, of course, talking about the Neeraj Grover and Arushi Talwar sagas as they play out before us on television like some bad stories on Sansani… Two young lives snuffed out on account of rage-induced insanity. Both stories have all the essentials of a movie, so I was hardly surprised on reading reports that known names in the film industry have approached the police chief Rakesh Maria for details of the story.
It also brought to mind several conversations about ambivalent morality as shown in movies like Race and Tashan, and whether they hold a mirror to society at large. For most part, people imagine that those serial killers pumping bullets into innocent bystanders or witnesses exist only in a scriptwriter’s imagination. Or better still, these disturbing dysfunctional beings can be found only in the licentious West. As these incidents have shown, the myth has been busted. Wannashine Monica Maria Susairaj, her boyfriend Jerome Mathew and the alleged Dr Rajesh Talwar’s dastardly acts have left us in no doubt that the scenario is fast changing even in our land of holy cows.
Why, when Race was released, the opinions were largely stacked up against the ambivalent and questionable morality displayed by the protagonists in the film. Yours truly was among those who found the film entertaining and felt that the morality questions at large were best left to the Moral Science classes at school. I must confess that I thought its unscrupulous protagonists were incredulous but rather entertaining. However, after reading up details of the two aforementioned incidents, I am not quite sure whether sociologists who have been crying themselves hoarse about the glorification of violence in our movies are all wrong. While I doubt that movies consciously encourage people to go on a killing spree, what they certainly do is influence society’s reactions to such acts. Occasionally, they nudge us into condoning criminal acts. Let me elucidate the point – sitting at a café, I overheard a conversation (about the incident) between a few guys. It was shocking to hear that they thought Susairaj was rather ‘Hot’ not just because she is attractive but because she had had sex with a guy who was not her boyfriend, watched him get killed and then went back to have some good old-fashioned sex with the fiancée even as the other man lay cold dead in her apartment.
From what I could gather, her unrepentant and predatory nature seemed a virtue to them and the film angle would not have figured if one of them had not cited a parallel – Bipasha Basu in Jism. It was something of an eye-opener that what is deemed acceptable in a film could be used as a benchmark to determine how far you can push the limits in real life... Maybe some food for thought for creative minds out there to chew on.
And on the more lighthearted front, the blogging story goes on. Daggers drawn and fangs bared all, a few clicks away on your computer screen – Bollywood entertainment has taken a new form. Mr B in the last big development had turned his attention to columnist Shobhaa De’s comment about the dress daughter-in-law Aishwarya wore at Cannes. Mrs De, in her trademark feisty style, refuses to be cowed down and has expressed her views, no not on a blog, but in her columns. Aamir Khan has apologised to SRK’s fans for his canine comments while King Khan has made it abundantly clear that he has no time for idle chatter. B town girls, meanwhile, have turned incredibly boring, dishing out polite and politically correct statements about rivals and everyone else. Maybe they should take a page from the boys’ websites.
A twisted plot
