{mosimage}As usual Jacy gave me a flop movie VCD for weekend viewing - "Koi Aap Saa.." The initial scenes looked colourful and I sneak previewed the climax and decided to go ahead. It was more like my most favourite movie "Niram / Nuvve Kaavali / Piriyatha Varam vendum", I decided to go ahead, until that rape scene came. The heroine is raped by her fiancee's friend and for some reasons ( I didn't watch it) she delivers that child. I found that concept sick and stopped the movie forever. Infact I have decided never ever in my life to sit for a movie with a rape scene when I was terribly disturbed for a week after seeing "Damini / Priyanka" which revolved around the brutal rape incident.
Whatever might be the conviction I can't digest delivering the child out of rape and dignify it as "What did that poor soul do..?" There can never be a foolish thing than this. According to me rape is like a dog bite. Even if the dog happens to be your pet, will you allow it by not going to the doctor? All happens in a rape is an "unauthorised entry of foreign particles" and a mental trauma. Even though we can't mitigate the mental trauma immediately why dignify the "foreign particle" by giving any conviction. Just clear those foreign particles and try to come away from that nightmare.
I remember the scene in Maniratnam's "Pagal nilavu" where Radhika is raped by villian Nizhalgal Ravi and lives as single, similiarly a Telugu movie where KR Vijaya is raped by the arrogant landlord and chooses to live away from her husband because she has lost her "chastity". I was in my 8th standard then and I don't know what a rape actually mean. While seeing that movie I was thinking what kind of ladies they are, instead of commiting suicide they are living shamelessly. Somewhere down the line almost all movies released during the 80's and early 90s had a sympathetic sister character who was created only to be raped by vilian and commit suicide / or hero forcing villian to marry her. That created an mindset in me that after a rape the girl MUST die or marry the rapist. What kind of life the girl will have after the forced marriage? Rape was an one time nightmare but the marriage will be a torture of her lifetime. Still we live in such a regressive society where rapes are covered up / converted into marriage due to further damage after compaining and the victims undergoes the same trauma again and again everytime the case comes to the court.
Rather than going to the psyche of rapist and victim, I just wonder how long our script writers are going to patronise these kind of movies?
{mosimage}Another movie that I hated the much was "Love Today / Suswagatham / Kya Yehi Pyar Hai.. " climax where the hero gives the heroine Sandhya a lengthy sermon about how love affected his life, he didn't study for four years, he couldn't do the last rituals of his dead father, blah.. blah... What he was indicating? The girl was so courageous and single minded enough to come out with flying colours in her studies despite her sadistic father's troubles & her mental tortures due to the hero's one side love. Is that determination wrong? The hero says that he couldn't concentrate on his studies, think about his future due to his love for her, FUCKER but he didn't fail to booze & break into group songs and dance, enjoy with friends, make pranks and fight on streets. The lengthy dialogue was sheer escapism from his responsiblities. Most Idiotic movie I had ever seen. I went to the movie with my sister and towards the end I came out saying my sister that I am uncomfortable with it.
I want to remake the same movie with this end. Sandhya becomes a Systems analyst, works for Microsoft/IBM. One day on street she comes across the hero who is still searching for his love in bus stand. She gives him her visiting card, gives the lengthy lecture of how to be responsible in life and asks him to meet her next day in her office. Hero still considers this as token of love and breaks into a duet and on dream he accidentally bumps into a running vehicle and dies.... The visiting card still lies on street, movie ends with the subtitle "Some beggars never change ..."
