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I used to think skin show was largely a girls' territory until recently where I saw John Abraham busy caressing his butt on screen!Gone are the days when only women would like to look sexy (choosing whatever method they could) to appease their audience. Now there is no difference between men and women. Actresses going lengths to reduce their waist lengths to zero and guys so busy with the 'PROTEIN' diet that the pro-teens want to be like them without any second thought! I once saw a film where both the hero and the heroine were busy showing their respective cleavages to the camera in a classic bollywood conversation. (I will even tell you the name 'U me aur hum').
Do they(actors/actresses) want us to keep admiring them for their bodies or really want us to appreciate the film whose main aim is entertainment albeit with some message good or bad. How long can you stare at somebody's sixpack or say PCs cleave ? The picture's got to move forward, ain't it? The movie scenes, songs, each and every part so fraught with sleaze that people tend to forget whether there ever
was a story. Aamir Khan boasts of an eight-pack in Ghajini. Yeah, for a man who has lost his girlfriend, memory and a life, eight pack is the top priority. He might even say to himself, "Let me get an eight-pack first then I will avenge the death of my beloved".
Movie must be a fulfilling experience for both the audience and the ones involved in making it. It is filled with creativity as it also constitutes the 'ART' in part. Sylvester Stallone for example displays probably the most ripped human form in RAMBO. But the movie is not about it. It is more about how soldiers find it difficult to get integrated with the society. It is set in time where the public is depressed with numerous deaths in Vietnam war and have lost the respect for their soldiers. So, even the police have a rather caustic way of dealing with them. Imagine the scene where he climbs up a cliff to run away from a helicopter! Naturally the police is not used to such a criminal-quest. This shows that the film was a combined affect of the director, producer, the actors , actresses who all have contributed towards making a meaningful film that is worthy of appreciation in all areas. The making, action, the hardened look of a soldier who has no qualms about his fight for survival and knows nothing about law and order. No, don't say, again another comparison with 'the american'. It can be any good film for that matter.
Sadly our bollywod has failed to understand this concept. Every one trying to get that six pack and someother muscles all which have weird names. I somewhere heard that Salman Khan did squats for VEER. I barely understand what a squat is in body-building terminology but am sure I couldn't see its effect in the entire length of 3 hrs of the film. I am not against being muscular, yes a hardworking man is ofcourse muscular there is no need to keep flaunting it everynow and then.
The audience is increasingly comprising of the educated lot. Does bollywood think that they are brainless and just good admirers? Infact women themselves must move towards doing meaningful roles. There is nothing wrong in trying to look sexy, it is like a birthright for them and yes they could add some grace to whatever they do. This is the reason we tend to forget today's movies so soon. We are nostalgic about movies of 70s, 80s, 90s because they have sense and essence. The focus was more on work and less on looks. Today it is the business of show than showbusiness. Guys also moving in the direction of women where it had to be other way round instead.
A good movie must be entertaining and also educating.
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