Insight and Conscience

When we Indians saw a film like "Lipstick Under My Burkha", we all first laughed during the film as if it was some ridiculous fantasy film that has no connection to reality whatsoever and then rejected it by saying that it's just an erotica, and nothing sort of feminist - not by any manner of means.

It's not the comprehension that we lack. No, we all pretty much have that (or at least we claim to have). What we, the all of us, actually lack is insight to see things keeping our privileges aside and conscience to admit that such things are actually happening everywhere, even in our own homes, in our societies, and instead of doing this, what we do is to offer sheer indifference and ignorance, towards anything and everything.

When we saw an elderly woman having sexual desires in the movie, we just couldn't digest it because we had never thought of anything like that. We've never had the insight to see into a woman's mind or life and know that she could also have such completely normal feelings and desires. Neither we have ever had that insight nor we have ever tried to inculcate that into us because our "Aadhi Aabadi" is not even human for us. It was all new for us and we, as we always do, chose to act like an ignorant fool and blame the film instead for it's obscenity.

And then we saw the character of Konkana Sen Sharma which was as realistic as anything, but we couldn't digest that either because we are either privileged enough to not to be aware of such things at all or we don't have the conscience to admit that this is happening all around us, if not in our home, then in our neighbour's home. Oppression of women in marriages, marital rapes, domestic violence, everything is actually happening and we instead of taking a notice of it and admitting it, remain ignorant and throw indifference at them.

The only problem with the film is that is showed too much truth. So much truth that it hurt. It showed everything that was never meant to be showed. It said everything that was never meant to be said.

It showed things with women's perspective and that is all where the film went wrong.

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