Scribblings from far away

From : Confessions of a confused mind

Just thought of copy pasting (again !) stuff from my previous blog on rediff.
The point being written in Dec 2003 these are truly posts from far away.....

Romance : where are we headed?

It was sometime between Vijay’s one handed rout of an entire rowdy gang and Ajith’s demolition of a bunch of police officers that I realized :if u want to be a hero there are only two professions to be pursued:Be a thug or be a police guy and pursue the thug !
The concept of a ‘normal’ office going software engineer or a doctor or any of the hajaaar professionals who sweat it out being romantic seems almost impossible .. or so our dear story writers would make us believe.The last time I actually had a look at a ‘normal’ non-police non-rowdy character proclaim love was I think in alaipayuthey .(a long time back unless u are a sudu and ur knowledge of tam movies is as inchoate as my cleanliness program)Some might pullout of their minds a few characters who might have shown the possibilities in a non khaki guy but then think hard ..squeeze those grey cells a bit more and iam sure u will find that an element of physical power… a dash of the hero’s muscular abilities would have been neatly (maybe subtly) conveyed to make him a bit more appealing.No wonder then that while surya ,ajith have added khaki to their wardrobe,Vijay and co have opted for a more roguish image.Some might wonder why I didn’t comment on Vikram .. and the answer is : I quote from 'saamy' :“ naan police illa poruki !”.Another contestant to be judged is Madhavan.. he ..hmm ..he is a smart guy! ... probe a bit beyond those chocolatey characters and u will find as in minnale that u need to have atleast an intro as a rowdy to convince the audience that here is a stud.Iam excluding kamalhaasan from this analysis coz of the fact that he has stopped projecting himself as a hero .. in the sense that it is never kamal but his characters that do the talking ( coz kamalhaasan simply melts into his character and the original ‘superstar’ no longer exists!)

so what was the point of all this analysis ? I just wanted to point out that increasingly ‘we guys’ and by that I refer to the vast majority of law abiding youth tend to think of romance as something that junta in khaki and rowdies indulge in (if u've read 'arms and the man':g.b.shaw u might get a better idea of whatever it is iam trying to put across) .
And please by romance I do not confine myself to the skirt chasing that most of us indulge in anyway : iam referring to the charm ,to the nobleness/desirability of each and every line of life.Why is it that we need to get copied and recopied documentaries of : “ ithuthaanda police” , “ police rowdy” ,”karupaaayeeee i.p.s “ etc etc ?
what about “ munniyandi b.tech” or “ mein bill gates banna chahta hoon” or maybe “ithuthaanda doctor!” or “maanagara clerk” ? how come we haven’t yet got a decent “super miner 2003”? and those of you who trash my argument by declaring that films made on ‘the rest’ are gonna be art films : puhleeeeeeeeez …..
put on your specs..let us not get myopic …
think about it.
so what do you guys see?