As I sit and pen this article after a super busy day, my nose floats in heaven as petrichor blurs into caffeine and enters my senses; on the outside, the speaker tunes into a folk-number of Ram-Leela (2013), the nth adaptation of Shakespeare’s work and perhaps the most acclaimed in our part of the world. And as I switch tabs, it’s our Juliet who, in the backdrop of Holi, firmly holds the chin of her (just met) Romeo and plants a kiss on his lips – they’ve tasted blood, literally.
My mind almost instantly takes me back to the awkward feeling I had then, sitting between my mother and grandmother, my fingers digging deep in my pockets. ‘Girls’ they’d echoed during the post-movie dinner, ‘do not behave the way “she” did in the movie – so bold, so audacious – there is a limit.’
I’d resisted, ‘so you mean guys have the liberty to do all of that and girls don’t, why?’ They were stunned for a moment, but came back with a bumper, ‘because they’re girls. It isn’t in our culture.’ I had caught my father smiling then, he had always known it was futile to argue with the two women. I hadn’t, and I’m glad I didn’t.
Read the entire write-up on the official blog of ‘Half Baked Beans’, a publishing house based in Delhi –
Hindi Films – Coming of Age Finally!
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