Why shud boyz have all the fun...2

Sequels ka zamaana hai...u had Dhoom2 , Lage Raho Munnabhai, Golmaal Returns, Phir Hera Pheri, Sarkaar Raj, et al............tht's a recent phenomenon in Bollywood; Hollywood has been there n done tht for years now....

But it is not this 'sequel' thing tht prompted me to write a sequel to my previous post....hua aisa ki, i had not watched Dev D till then, n after having it, i was tempted to add to my thots expressed in the last post, 'coz it came very close to wht i was trying to put across....

I wud call the maker of this movie a braveheart, for reasons more than one...... it proudly potrayed women as sexual beings, as much as men, without being derogatory....how menacingly flirtatious is it for a heroine to carry a mattress all the way on a bicycle and invite the hero to make it out in the fields and literally 'toot padna' onto him, there's nothin' sinful 'bout it.... n Mahie Gill rocked...and not just the heroine, the other girl (a certain Rasika in the movie) sends an open invite to him for some fun in the murghi ghar, n absolutely makes no bones 'bout it.......

In which hindi movie before this one has a hero asked the heroine for a nude pic of hers and she complies with an equal fervour? is tht crass or vulgar? i think tht's 'liberating' in the true sense of the word...it's ok for love n lust to peacefully co-exist 'coz they aren't sworn enemies, love doesn't lose its purity or truthfulness if u lust for ur partner, sexuality has been n wud always remain an essential part of a man-woman relationship tied by so-called 'love'.........

Sexuality is as old as humanity itself...why shy away from it? why talk 'bout it in hushed whispers? why associate it with a nagging sense of guilt? why mix it with morality? It's just a matter of seeing it in the right perspective..tht's it.............

Why shud boyz have all the fun??

'It's a man's world' they say....does tht hold true or even make sense any longer..maybe it does...is gender equality still an issue, leave aside sexual equality..maybe it is....

Recent times have seen a lotta movies challenging and/or shattering age-old cliches n stereotypes n letting 'women's sexuality' come to the fore...a few instances-
Priety Zinta has a no-hold, no-guilt-attached premarital live-in sexual relationship wid Saif in Salaam Namaste widout any promises/expectations of committment/marriage, i think it's truly coming-of-age of a mainstream hindi film female lead...
Fashion was truly liberating in this sense...Priyanka Chopra is shown to share the bed wid Arjun Bajwa, her live-in boyfriend as well as Arbaaz Khan widout any pangs of guilt.....guilt comes in only after her unintended one-night stand wid the black stud in a drugged state.....cool......
Priyanka Chopra (again) in Aitraaz lusts for a man (there's no love here) and is also accused of sexual assault...although the character is shown in a negative light, a 'woman's lust minus love' depiction deserves some mention in the positive light....
The size-zero icon Kareena Kapoor has strutted her stuff with a lotta elan not once but twice...pat on the back, though there was nothin' overtly sexual in just a smooch, she initiates the passionate kisses (n not the heroes, who only follow suit) wid Shahid in Jab We Met and Fardeen in Dev....no bravado this, it's true courage...whatsay?
Tabu's 'bold' lines on the sexual needs of a woman in Astitva while clad in a cotton saree, wid oiled n plaited gray hair, n in the bespectacled deglam common woman avatar, probably took the issue to its pinnacle.......
Remember Tabu taking a dig at the aging horse's 'stamina' in Cheeni Kum....hmmm....
Rahul Bose's 30+ in Mumbai Matinee n desperate to lose his virginity....he finds a female counterpart in Life In A Metro's Konkana with similar concerns....is gender equality still an issue???

It still is, i guess.....
Ranbir Kapoor sleeps around wid women n shops for condoms in Bachna Ae Haseeno, which is noticed by Deepika, she still falls for him....had it been the other way round, i mean Deepika shown to be having casual sexual indulgences n knowing this, wud Ranbir still wanna have her?? in the same movie, Bipasha aptly points out tht since she's into a live-in, her character n morality wud be questioned....the guy's excused, the gal bears the brunt....
Likewise in Hey Baby, Vidya accepts Akshay in the final scenes of the movie, inspite of his sexual flings wid the myriad of chics (n boastfully so)...had it been the other way round....how ok wud tht be??
Shilpa Shetty in Life In A Metro regretting her sexual slip for Shiney Ahuja bemoans,"i feel like a slut"....while KK has his way in an expectedly normal manner....

No riddle this, but wht is it tht's a virtue for girls n a vice for boys? the answer, my friends-- is blowin' in the wind....
VIRGINITY........
'Double Standards'- did somebody shout?
For a guy to be a virgin before marriage brings him 'no respect' (read-shame) in his friends' circle, while a woman is labelled a slut, a whore, if she loses her priced possession before tying the nuptial knot...so much of a hue n cry over a piece of tissue, no wonder plastic surgeons hv suddenly found more work in hymenoplasty.....
Virginity- is it an issue at all? must be, otherwise why wud Priety Zinta so blatantly n so unabashedly ask Shahrukh in Dil Se," R u a virgin?", only to his shock....

All said n done, sexual n gender inequality is a reality, to which Priyanka Chopra (in the Hero Honda commercial) has a question to ask - "Why Should Boys Have All The Fun?"