Noah’s Dus…

This is worse than Sholay. How can they do this?

Theatre in Vashi, late night show of Dus. Me shivering in the AC and all smug – hah! of course Abhishek Bacchan will be saved miraculously.

And he was not.

How can they do this?

It is all my parents’ fault – for letting me watch Hindi movies (and Tamil movies too but no English movies – dirty) as a child – I have grown up with a screwed up sense of reality. Good will win over bad. Hero will live while villian will die. Or atleast be marched away by the police in the last scene to rot in jail (by which time his evil long haired lawyers are also in jail – so no more bail for him).

When I have a nephew*, I will make sure he does not get to watch Hindi movies till he is 16. By which time his sense of reality will be all warped anyway. In any case he will not naively hope that good will triumph and the hero will survive through bomb blasts and all that.

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The other thing I am going to talk about – and I guess it is better to say this directly to you, nephew, is this contrived pairing of each male character in the movie. Oh did I say contrived. Sorry, I meant to say cute.

There are four of them males in the movie, all with varying levels of testesterone – and therefore degrees of swagger. Basically all male type males (give or take a bit with Zayed Khan but what the heck)…

And – here is the clincher – each of them has a female jodi – who may or may nor be part of his present life but features in a definite way in his future. While the fiance (he-souten) of one of them is conveniently bumped off by the terrorist (who for some unknown reason leave her intact), another is given a chance by the terrorists to see her hindustan times husband in a new light, what with killing a few terrorists and saving cute innocent school children from death. The third one just stares moonily at her man every time she is with him in the same room – which is all the time – while he deflects these looks with professional poise (of course he loves her in his heart of hearts).

And finally, the bad woman who naturally has no business being alive after all those bad things she has done, prefers to die with her man rather than live without him. Which brings me back to my original ‘why did they have to kill Abhishek Bacchan’ thingy.

(Here I must mention that my husband gently pointed out that it was unpatriotic of me to expect them to break away completely from cinematic tradition and leave the heroine partnerless for the rest of her life. We have our culture to think of after all).

But.

But, here is the bit for you, child – it is not essential to find a woman and cling to her (even if she is a terrorist type bad woman) in life and death. It is perfectly okay to live in the world single – or to find and cling to a man you love (perfectly okay by me atleast – and in any case considering you are fictitious, perfectly okay. Period.)

I know, I know that Yash Copra has told us long ago that god has made us all (in her infinite wisdom) in pairs. But Noah’s Dus will sail all the same without that, you know…

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* Highly unlikely considering I do not have a brother or sister, but letters to nephews is all the rage in blogs now – these are usually written by compulsive writers of letters to the editor who have now made their homes in cyberspace. What with HT and DNA and all – kis kis ko kya kya likhein? So here is my own to a non existent nephew…