Click to play videoMumbai: In Bollywood, love stories have always been pure and virginal. Love conquered the world and lust shied away.
“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,” says director, Dev D, Anurag Kashyap,
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. 25-year-old Kalki who plays Chanda in the film, says she has never related to moralistic candy floss love stories.
“Its one thing to always make a moral story but that is 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 thats a good thing and I think its happening,” says actress, Kalki Koechlin.
Many new voices in the industry are now pushing the envelope. In Onir's Sorry Bhai, Chitrangada's character not only falls for her fiancé’s brother but also takes the initiative to seduce him something only vamps used to do.
Because in Bollywood, the female leads were either virgins or portrayed as sexless.
“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,” says Filmmaker, Onir.
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 and its taken Bollywood just a decade to find the answer.
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