Originally posted by: atominis
So well said. I agree with every word.
Same old crap desi mentality of father or grandfather or elder brother or mom or nani, dadi or saas controlling decisions and meddlinh in life.
I agree. I have faced it myself. I feel biggest mistake in my life was to listen to my parents.
Desi families never let you be independent. Nor trust your own gut feeling or instinct or follow own intuition. They make you doubt yourself and keep guilt tripping you or make you emotional or blackmail you or scare you against doing your own thing and bring everyone to humiliate you, if you defy them.
I had an inkling that Bobby was too much under influence of Dharam and Sunny. Thanks for sharing details about how his career suffered due to dad and bhaiya choosing outdated films for him based on own old school mindset.
Deols had tried to meddle in career of Abhay also. But he carved his own path and did not rely much on them nor made Dharam's nephew his primary identity. He was smart enough to carve own niche and appeal to urban sensibilities than remain frozen in Punjab di mitti da puttar or pass off as pind da puttar like Dharam and Sunny.
Amused how desis call this bullshit controlling behaviour as family values.
If you ask me, I think Esha, Abhishek, would have had a better career if they stepped out of shadow of their families and did not tag along with them nor had them meddle in their choices of scripts.
Enmeshment with families destroys your life. Later same family has the gall to call you unlucky or blame destiny, luck, karma, fate or Will of God for own faulty decisions. You are right about most desis living in repression and unable to fulfil own potential.
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