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The CVs visit India -Forums. And as I watched them put line after line into Paro's mouth, that seemed to be done in direct response to the "Paro chii! Short choli wearing besharaam!" posts that have been here for the past 24 hours, I felt more and more embarrassed for us.
Its like Sanaya was telling me to my TV Screen (since she can't see my face, covered as it was with a mud mask and raw feelings) Sanaya was saying--look people, I'm a village girl, but I have a goddamn right to actually pretend that village is located in India in the 2014, and not in Victorian England in the 1800s. So yeah, I'm giving up on laaj samaaj, but at the same time, I have actual feelings, and I have the balls to express them.
Please people. I know you are thinking---how dare she! What a s**t! Telling a man what she feels before he does, and WELL before 25 roses have knocked against each other with Rajesh Khanna singing on mountain-tops, to indicate he likes her too! This is not good for Sanaya's own self-respect, you will say. Sanaya is someone who I love and who's feelings about this disgusting track is something I know well--since she has a dog that goes to my younger uncle's neighbors dog's veterinarian in real life-- i KNOW Sanaya (Sanz, to friends like me) and Sanz does not like playing this s**tty, open bloused, open dupatad and open mouthed Paro! She be a wh**e!.
But hold off. Think for a second whether or not the Paro who stands up to an entire Army alone, with no hesitation or guile is not the same woman who would stand in front of the world, again, alone, to stand up for her love. I loved the episode, barring those clunker-bones being thrown to the conservative lobby with issues with a woman actually speaking up before the man, in this day an age. The hiding behind--"she's a village girl!" excuse does not make ANY sense if you also know anything else about Paro--such as whether or not she has been consistently naiive, and simple for the past 65 episodes--LIKE a village girl.
All I request from India-Forums fans--DONT be consistent trolls and bash the characters and CVs without a thought. Don't bash a story-line because your bitchy old Dadi with the cataracts and the mean streak did, and she is the person who you take all your modern day life lessons from. And if there is a mouchiya in your life, Baisa...tell him he's hot, and you like him, and maybe ask him out on a date before proposing that he gives you 6 sons.
Its okay. Take a deep breath, appreciate the NON feminism at work here--the total submission of the self to love--the denial of ego, vanity, pride or even society. The laws that prevented us from having a voice, or a brain, or the guts to express love and emotions--those rules went out with Victorian England in the 1800s. Join us in 2014, Baisa. Paro is here, and she likes it fine.
Its like Sanaya was telling me to my TV Screen (since she can't see my face, covered as it was with a mud mask and raw feelings) Sanaya was saying--look people, I'm a village girl, but I have a goddamn right to actually pretend that village is located in India in the 2014, and not in Victorian England in the 1800s. So yeah, I'm giving up on laaj samaaj, but at the same time, I have actual feelings, and I have the balls to express them.
But given your mind-set, I'm going to have to interrupt every second line of an incredibly powerful scene to assure every Poster here of her pavitra-ta--and how expressing feelings and desires to the loved one without a fake marriage /kidnapping/cruelties IS VERY HARD TO DO--even though it is totally consistent with Paro's character arc, not to mention her almost unearthly simplicity, goodness and absolutely linear thinking about life.
Please people. I know you are thinking---how dare she! What a s**t! Telling a man what she feels before he does, and WELL before 25 roses have knocked against each other with Rajesh Khanna singing on mountain-tops, to indicate he likes her too! This is not good for Sanaya's own self-respect, you will say. Sanaya is someone who I love and who's feelings about this disgusting track is something I know well--since she has a dog that goes to my younger uncle's neighbors dog's veterinarian in real life-- i KNOW Sanaya (Sanz, to friends like me) and Sanz does not like playing this s**tty, open bloused, open dupatad and open mouthed Paro! She be a wh**e!.
But hold off. Think for a second whether or not the Paro who stands up to an entire Army alone, with no hesitation or guile is not the same woman who would stand in front of the world, again, alone, to stand up for her love. I loved the episode, barring those clunker-bones being thrown to the conservative lobby with issues with a woman actually speaking up before the man, in this day an age. The hiding behind--"she's a village girl!" excuse does not make ANY sense if you also know anything else about Paro--such as whether or not she has been consistently naiive, and simple for the past 65 episodes--LIKE a village girl.
All I request from India-Forums fans--DONT be consistent trolls and bash the characters and CVs without a thought. Don't bash a story-line because your bitchy old Dadi with the cataracts and the mean streak did, and she is the person who you take all your modern day life lessons from. And if there is a mouchiya in your life, Baisa...tell him he's hot, and you like him, and maybe ask him out on a date before proposing that he gives you 6 sons.
Its okay. Take a deep breath, appreciate the NON feminism at work here--the total submission of the self to love--the denial of ego, vanity, pride or even society. The laws that prevented us from having a voice, or a brain, or the guts to express love and emotions--those rules went out with Victorian England in the 1800s. Join us in 2014, Baisa. Paro is here, and she likes it fine.
