Click to play videoMumbai: Love stories have always been pure and virginal in Bollywood. Love conquered the world and lust shied.
In 1995, a Bollywood blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Leh Jayange poster read 'Come.....Fall in Love'. In 2008, Sorry Bhai poster read, ‘Come, fall In Love… with your brother's bride’, and in 2009, the Dev Dpremier pass read , ‘Come fall in lust….with a condom'.
Has new age Bollywood romance finally lost its virginity?
Director, Dev D Anurag Kashyap says, “When young couple fall in love, they literally emotionally blackmail each other in having sex for the first time, first time is always kind of some emotional blackmail, so its part of every innocent love. And I don’t understand why don’t we talk about it, show it on screen.”
That's Anurag Kashyap's take on love and lust which he calls "emosanal atychaar" in his film Dev D, which has finally brought lust and sex out of closet. The film has shocked a few but has also found many takers in Gen Y.
Twenty-five-year old Kalki who plays Chanda in the film, says she has never related to moralistic candyfloss love stories!
Actress Kalki Koechlin says, “It’s one thing to always make a moral story, but that’s what not life is about. Life is not a morally perfect story. So cinema should tell what’s really happening in the world. Art is reflection of humanity and all our problems. So that’s a good thing and I think its happening.”
Many new voices in the industry, are now pushing the envelope. In Onir's Sorry Bhai, Chitrangada's character not only falls for her fiance's brother but also takes the intiative to seduce him... something only vamps used to do. Because in Bollywood, the female leads were either virgins or portrayed as sexless.
Onir says, “I get call from women journalists from all over the country, who have loved the film and they love the fact that women have been given right to sexuality which is very often denied, very often we like to see that they don’t think about sex, they don’t make initiative, they are just passive, they just are objects to be enjoyed and who don’t have a sense, who don’t enjoy sex, they just do it for children.”
However, films like Life in a Metro and most recently Luck By Chance have talked about love with maturity and realism.
In '98, Preity Zinta popped the question to Shah rukh Khan in Dil Se, are u virgin, and it has taken Bollywood just a decade to find the answer. Abhay in Dev D asks Kalki, how old r u ? Old enough to go to bed with you baby is Kalki’s reply.
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