What is it about watching two Indians smooching, and perhaps more, on the big screen that sends shivers down our spine? Why is it that people, the same people who are comfortable watching movies like Basic Instinct and American Pie, cover up their eyes or avert their faces when even the remotest hint of a liplock comes up in Bollywood? I know, because I am one of those who cringed in the Ishqiya scene involving Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan.
Does it have something to do with how we're brought up, where sex is a forbidden topic and a condom ad on TV the worst, most embarrassing thing that can happen to a family dinner? Does our discomfort and disgust stem from the moral center we can't deny we fall prey to when it comes to people of our own race, while such behaviour is expected from people who hail from a Western culture? Is it because Bollywood directors don't handle it as tastefully? Or have we gotten too used to having the camera glide away at exactly the right moment, leaving the rest upto the imagination of the viewer?
We are the second largest population on the planet. Also the country where the Holy Grail Kamasutra hails from. Then why this double standard?
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