The hunt for finding true love has been a phenomenon since the day Adam and Eve were sent to earth. The adversity of discovering love as per the “demand factor” has inexorably increased in the present day which in return has spiked up the institution of marriage. Stepping out of the marital bliss seems to be in fashion now a days and one blames on finding his true soul mate.
Instead of being calm and sonorous about love and passion, humans have veiled it under the ghoulish character. I can’t help referring to Mr. Romeo and Miss Juliet here who died to attain each one and quietly accepted dead as another step to be together. Isn’t the world heading towards brutalism and cunningness? And if one needs to be in the abode of love, why can’t it be passionate, why can’t they be sensitive.
It seems to be an excuse to step out of marriage and enjoy the flavor of life. The “flavor of the month” is what drives them to another human being; changing fashion and changing character of human seem work in tandem. Paced out life, higher disposable income and of course freedom to explore can be some of the factors that mark the end of marriage in this present society.
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Yatra, Choker Baali make ornate depiction of people moving out of their societal relationship to find “love” only to suffer adversity and privation. The story revolves around the lead character who banishes marriage to find love in other’s wife or husband. Children, parents and of course the emotions are then commoditized and the wealthy of the two are allowed to keep it as an asset.
The larger than life character of Rekha in the movie Yatra attains a mystic state when she consent to sleep with a person who rescues her from a wealthy landlord. The culmination of passion never reaches its final destination of making love, where Nana Patekar dies of a heart attack. The director was clever not to touch the subject line and makes the protagonist accept death than getting into a relationship that could have defamed him. I somehow could relate that moment with John Donne’s poetry, where mosquito was a symbol of unification because it had bitten the man and the women. Well! Although I could not see that in the story but I am sure that’s what was intended by the director.
The same holds true for Shah Rukh Khan, who was a looser in life and found another frustrated human being to solicit his love act with. They were supposed to have found true love. Although, Rani’s marriage with Mr. Junior Bachan was a compromise, she could have parted with grace and dint need to sleep with a married man. Human choose complex situation and curse god. God must be enjoying the humor we humans enact for him, everyday a new fold act and each day a mistake made.
Free world, freedom to think, freedom to be corrupt are synonyms that we tag with finding “true love” now. Aristotle’s poetic that states about the world which should be free and naked is now coming to be a reality.
I mean to get loved, I mean to be loved,
I can be mean to snatch love, I can be mean to only look out for love.