by Mehnaz on Jul 23
No, I am not a feminist! But yes, I detest typical Indian men and their mentality. Watching Bollywood’s coolest actor Saif Ali Khan as Gautam in ‘Cocktail’ reminded me again of (Indian) men’s archaic thoughts. Being in the 21st century doesn’t bring any change for these lot and their thinking; which will be coffined forever with no desire of change.
For enjoyment, he will go for the coolest chick in the town but when it comes to presenting his partner in front of his parents, he opts for a shy-homely-pretty-simple girl. One reason for choosing such girl, which is obvious, is-to hide his previous ‘cool’ history to fool the pretty. Other reason, I guess is-he thinks the cool girl will always be fast forward whole of her life and he won’t be to control the wife. Another reason being- his hottest-once-his-crime partner can easily catch his crimes that he wants to hide. The reason list can go on and on, however, last but not the least reason is-her virginity! Yes, it should be intact and should only be meant to lose to him. How pathetic! Time to grow up guys!
Nay, I ain’t guessing and firing blindly! Some of my male counterparts actually think the way the above reasons have been cited. Well, no one can change once attitude until and unless one actually wants to.
Coming back to ‘Cocktail’, as I said it could have been served better and could have changed the thinking of Indian males (if not fully but a bit), only if the ending was innovative. Instead of taking home Meera (the shy girl) played by debutant Diana Penty, Gautam could have married Deepika Padukone’s character Veronica (the cool girl) so that there is some newness in the movie thus influencing the masses particularly men.
Repeating the earlier attempted success stories of dumping fast-forward girl for a homely one only raises the minus points of the movie and makes it dull. There is nothing new in the movie but Deepika’s acting improvement and its peppy party music. Good banner proves lucky for Diana Penty as she got reasonably good exposure so as others to appreciate her acting prowess. Saif was his usual self of being flirty. It’s again redundancy of his character. In some scenes, anyone would relate his character with his earlier acts in the movies like Love Aaj Kal, Hum Tum, Kal Ho Na Ho among others.
All in all, Cocktail is a good pass time movie. But if you are a feminist, make your sure you don’t hit your nearest theatre for the flick!
No, I am not a feminist! But yes, I detest typical Indian men and their mentality. Watching Bollywood’s coolest actor Saif Ali Khan as Gautam in ‘Cocktail’ reminded me again of (Indian) men’s archaic thoughts. Being in the 21st century doesn’t bring any change for these lot and their thinking; which will be coffined forever with no desire of change.
For enjoyment, he will go for the coolest chick in the town but when it comes to presenting his partner in front of his parents, he opts for a shy-homely-pretty-simple girl. One reason for choosing such girl, which is obvious, is-to hide his previous ‘cool’ history to fool the pretty. Other reason, I guess is-he thinks the cool girl will always be fast forward whole of her life and he won’t be to control the wife. Another reason being- his hottest-once-his-crime partner can easily catch his crimes that he wants to hide. The reason list can go on and on, however, last but not the least reason is-her virginity! Yes, it should be intact and should only be meant to lose to him. How pathetic! Time to grow up guys!
Nay, I ain’t guessing and firing blindly! Some of my male counterparts actually think the way the above reasons have been cited. Well, no one can change once attitude until and unless one actually wants to.
Coming back to ‘Cocktail’, as I said it could have been served better and could have changed the thinking of Indian males (if not fully but a bit), only if the ending was innovative. Instead of taking home Meera (the shy girl) played by debutant Diana Penty, Gautam could have married Deepika Padukone’s character Veronica (the cool girl) so that there is some newness in the movie thus influencing the masses particularly men.
Repeating the earlier attempted success stories of dumping fast-forward girl for a homely one only raises the minus points of the movie and makes it dull. There is nothing new in the movie but Deepika’s acting improvement and its peppy party music. Good banner proves lucky for Diana Penty as she got reasonably good exposure so as others to appreciate her acting prowess. Saif was his usual self of being flirty. It’s again redundancy of his character. In some scenes, anyone would relate his character with his earlier acts in the movies like Love Aaj Kal, Hum Tum, Kal Ho Na Ho among others.
All in all, Cocktail is a good pass time movie. But if you are a feminist, make your sure you don’t hit your nearest theatre for the flick!
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