Dil Dhadkne Do!!

I just came back after watching a much awaited movie - "Dil Dhadkne Do" and I'v been thinking ever since I have moved out of the theatre...its that kind of a movie which leaves an impact on you and makes you think....rise above our day to day mundane problems and look at the bigger picture...you can call it a modernized Rajshree Family drama too...but it makes a point (apart from all the love and togetherness of the family) in fact a lot of points and I could relate to so many of them.

Starting with the whole different treatment we still have between a daughter and a son in a family...even the well offs have this problem...its not restricted to the poor (which is kinda really sad that even the educated are still stuck with that sort of a thought process) then to the ages old concept of once a girl is married she is not a part of the family...and she is expected to keep her husband and his family above everything else....

There is this beautiful scene where Rahul Bose - playing a husband says "I was the first guy in my family to "allow" Ayesha (his wife) to set up her business" and very rightly pointed out who gave your the right to consider yourself to have the authority to allow anyone to do what he/she wants...and this happens in so many different forms...starting from certain dress codes implemented or allowed for girls in the house to the kind of jobs they are allowed to do...the timings to be back home (which I know for most cases are different for boys and girls) and I guess the list is endless..

Then off course the big issue of having kids...some say it in a subtle fashion...and some make it extremely obvious and I guess we can still handle family...but there are certain people who you have barely met for 5 minutes and they just tell you..."You are late...you should have kids by now" and to top it all they on their own decide that we should have a son...I mean Hello?? For girls its worst...as they get every possible advice to look after her family...leave your career focus on your family...forget about problems..have kids all will be fine...its like Bacha na hua Aladdin ka Chiraag ho gaya that it will grant all ur wishes. It is a decision a couple is supposed to make mutually and when they are ready...if they have any concerns they will discuss...simple as that.

Staying together and staying happily together are 2 different things and if two people are not happy with each other...there's no point dragging a relationship cos in the process you just end up hurting each other and hurting your own self...so y is still Divorce a Taboo? 

Hats off to Zoya Akhtar for putting forward all these questions again for all of us with a beautiful message in the end that every heart wants to beat its own way (Irrespective of being a girl or a guy)...why stop it...why tame it..let it dance to its own beat...just let it be!