The Dirty Review

In my last blog, I briefly applauded the movie so I thought I should give I some justice. BTW, this one was long overdue. First and foremost, RESPECT !!! \m/

I must be honest when I say that I judged the movie by its trailers; something I often never do. Nonetheless, when I heard there is this movie in which Vidya Balan shows her skin as a peacock shows of its feathers, I was far too discouraged to even bother to watch this movie. I am glad I put that apprehension to rest. This is amazing movie and this article will pretty much sum that up.

The movie is a tribute to Silk Smitha, a “B-grade” movie actress but the character Vidya Balan has portrayed is far from that. If Vidya Balan has even acted 50% of what Silk Smitha was in real life, then the movie industry mistook a diamond for something that can sparkle in the sun. The ESP of the movie in my opinion is indeed the skin. But think about it, the same “B-Grade” movies that we shun for its sleaze and cheap sex is something that titillated the masses all over India.

The formula of the movie is pretty much simple. It is the story of a poor star-struck girl who chose to market her body than her talent to reach stardom. But what won me over is the power-packed script and the witty comebacks by Miss Balan. Two of the climaxes of the movie were her first encounter with the serial kisser (Emran Hashmi – undoubtedly gets more talentless by the minute) and the way Silk works her charm. It was like watching Guru, only a much more sexier version of it. The naughtiness and the skin-show have class, truly they were so OOO LAA LAA….

Vidya Balan has won me over. From the idealist but emotionally passionate Lalita in Parineeta, the bitingly witty in Guru, the spectacularly scary in Bhool Bhulaiya, the mentally pragmatic in Halla Bol, the steamingly hot in Ishquiya, the truly magnificent in No one killed Jessica to the spectacularly dazzling in the dirty picture, Vidya Balan is an actress par excellence.

If you still are having second thoughts about the movie, trust my words, it’s a movie you SHOULD watch with your parents and be in awe of the woman who has proved to you that there can be beauty in sleaze.

Nudity in movies

The plan to write this article came to my mind long back but I never knew that “The Dirty Picture” would play such a party-pooper to my plans (a.k.a RESPECT!!!). Nonetheless, I shall go rambling about my point.

I have always failed to understand why Nudity in movies has increasingly become the ESP of the movie, why movies are rated based on the amount of sensuality of the movie and why every review mentions the number of kisses and sex scenes in the movie. Conveniently so, we always accuse “the WEST” for this. Inherently, this is what we always wanted. It is now analogous to having salt on your plate.

But I believe its not really so. “The WEST” does have more ROMCOM (Romantic Comedy – another acronym for sleazy stories and toilet humour) movies than character-oriented movies but they have started focusing on different genres now. Somehow, we are still stuck in the limbo between musicals and cheap entertainment. A few friends of mine have the opinion that you go to the movies to get entertained, you are going there with a shut mind and you really want to have “a fun time”, a little sex and no storyline goes hand in hand. Honestly, if that were the case, you really wasted your time. You could have gone on a trek, pursued your hobby, met up with friends, etc. But then that involves too much investment of time, and “Oh my god, you want me to go out in that traffic”; in short it’s a gadfly loop.

I don’t blame the producers for this. Their motto is “Jo Dikhta hain, who bikhta hain”. Sleaze is now the ESP of the movie. Any publicity is good publicity. Anything that can keep your attention off your eyes munching your popcorn will sell like hot brownies. The end result, you came back home with a rotten brain rather than getting entertained. You basically saw monkeys jumping on and off screen without a purpose. And not to mention, every movie must have a sad sequence otherwise you really did not strike the right chord with the audience. My point is you are eating the same chocolate with a different wrapper. You aren’t entertaining yourself, you are simply stagnating.

Movies are a form of art. Not every tom, dick and harry is an actor. Acting is a skill and to make your emotion reach every corner in the audience is your talent. Watch movies that motivate, that make you think out of the box. You are not stressing your mind when you see emotional dramas, you are made aware of how lucky and god-blessed you are. The “dhishum-dhishum” movies tell you that the small box you call “My world” is a figment of your imagination. There is so much social disharmony and it addresses you to introspect your own ideas about your society and beg to you to change the way you think. I am not against ROMCOM’s, it is not my cup of tea. But don’t say you want to shut your mind and get entertained, you are not.