MOVIES MASTI MAGIC..


I have recently been watching a lot of movies..somehow they have been coming my way..a volvo trip resulted in me begging for some Aspirin since I was subjected to three back-to-back movies..which included a couple by Emraan H..so you can imagine ;)

I watched Shabd sometime back on TV..and simultaneously 'Sex and the City' was also on..so I was flipping channels..and it made me think..

Shabd..has this couple..Sanjay D and Aishwarya R..henceforth referred to as SD and AR..SD is a writer and recently he has been suffering some blocks..AR is a professor in a college..

Since SD is going thru a phase where he is feeling creatively challenged..he tries probing his wife's life for ideas..and he questions her about her beliefs, her joys, her sorrows..her dreams, etc..It turns out that AR is happy and quite content with the life she has..she considers herself to be a very ordinary girl and has no great expectations of life..she has never done anything that she should not have and is not aware of any longing to do anything beyond the ordinary and mundane..she follows conventions..she believes that accepting even a 'Rose' from any man other than her husband (in the context of her being a college prof, 'Rose Day' is being referred to, I guess) is wrong and she believes herself to be completely in love with him..

Cut to 'Sex and the City'..Carrie is unhappy because the man she has been dating..somebody she is very attracted to..someone with who she has great chemistry and compatibilty etc..is not that good in bed..in fact..she describes her first sexual experience with him as 'Silent'..she is extremely disturbed by that fact and wants to work at it..make it better..spice it up..etc etc..normal 'Sex n the City' talk ensues and she does adopt some measures to heat up the action a lil ;)

What made me think was..here is AR..she is obviously not very liberated..she is living with the notion that she has the best life..and she does not want to know any better..the fact remains that she is happy..and there's Carrie..modern woman to the T..very aware of her personal needs, desires and unapologetic about them..but again we cannot escape the fact that she is unhappy..

So my point is..do we expect too much outta life and is that why we are mostly unhappy?