Trust the stormy petrel of the Hindi film industry; noted film maker Hansal Mehta to stir up a hornet's nest and tell it like it is whenever he decides to announce his next venture.........
Still basking in the unprecedented success of his last two directorial ventures Shahid and City Lights; Mehta announced his next film based on a sexual escapade between a soon to be super annuated Aligarh Muslim University Professor and humble rickshaw wallah that threw both their unremarkable and mundane lives into a vortex of slime and controversy from which the two of them are still recovering..........
One may do well to recall the fact that practically every journal; newspaper; publication in the country had some time back prominently featured a consensual sexual piccadiloe between the afore mentioned two individuals as the same was captured on a spy cam by a peeping tom; went viral and ultimately led to the suspension and social ostracisation of the noted professor..........
Though the sexual dalliance took place within the supposedly safe and sacrosanct four walls of the professor's apartment within the university campus and was between two consenting adults; the self appointed and styled moral brigade and police once again went on the offensive; grabbed eyeballs and headlines and only rested on their dubious and ill gotten laurels once the university authorities had suspended the said professor for his seemingly "unnatural and deviant" sexual proclivities that supposedly were contrary to the laws of nature and social discourse and practice.........
Hansal Mehta now plans to make a film on this "infamous" incident by launching the same in January 2015 and thereby rekindle and re-initiate a frank; free and far reaching debate on the highly contentious and repressive Article 377 of the Indian Constitution which was framed by the British and is completely irrelevant; obscure; archaic and oxymoronish when juxtaposed against the sexual mores and practices of a so called progressive and enlightened Indian society.........
Noted actor Manoj Bajpai has thus far been roped in to essay the epochal role of the university professor while a few other reputed actors are being short listed to play the role of the rickshaw wallah; on being asked about the need to make this film; Mehta says; "the same is my way of my raising my voice against the reprehensible and deplorable tendency to marginalise and segregate people on the grounds of their religion; sexual preferences; practices and the like".........
"The same also clearly highlights my steadfast and vehement opposition to the draconian and archaic Article 377 of the Indian Constitution that expressly prohibits and forbids consensual and willing sex between two adults from the same sex even though the same act is carried out within the four walls of an individual's home and hearth".........
"How does a sexual encounter or romp between two willing and consensual adults make an iota of difference in the life and times of these self appointed and anointed guardians of our culture and morality who do a lot worse and then adopt an utterly hypocritical ;holier than thou' attitude that has more holes in it than the the moon"..........
"I have quite a few gay and lesbian friends whose housing societies and residents' welfare associations mirror both the state as well as these extra constitutional authorities that have abrogated unto themselves the role of the moral police; I for one am of the firm belief that only the individual concerned has the right to determine his/her sexual practices and nobody else on the planet has the right to either point fingers or then raise objections about the same": a highly disturbed and visibly fuming Mehta signs off.........
Well; I can't comment about you; but I for one whole heartedly endorse Mr. Hansal Mehta's views and take on Article 377; we are the land of the Kamasutra which is nothing more than a celebration and vivid description of the sensual and ergonomic art of love making; so can we cut out the unwanted and undesirable hypocrisy/moral policing and get on with the business of living our lives in the manner that we want to.........
Still basking in the unprecedented success of his last two directorial ventures Shahid and City Lights; Mehta announced his next film based on a sexual escapade between a soon to be super annuated Aligarh Muslim University Professor and humble rickshaw wallah that threw both their unremarkable and mundane lives into a vortex of slime and controversy from which the two of them are still recovering..........
One may do well to recall the fact that practically every journal; newspaper; publication in the country had some time back prominently featured a consensual sexual piccadiloe between the afore mentioned two individuals as the same was captured on a spy cam by a peeping tom; went viral and ultimately led to the suspension and social ostracisation of the noted professor..........
Though the sexual dalliance took place within the supposedly safe and sacrosanct four walls of the professor's apartment within the university campus and was between two consenting adults; the self appointed and styled moral brigade and police once again went on the offensive; grabbed eyeballs and headlines and only rested on their dubious and ill gotten laurels once the university authorities had suspended the said professor for his seemingly "unnatural and deviant" sexual proclivities that supposedly were contrary to the laws of nature and social discourse and practice.........
Hansal Mehta now plans to make a film on this "infamous" incident by launching the same in January 2015 and thereby rekindle and re-initiate a frank; free and far reaching debate on the highly contentious and repressive Article 377 of the Indian Constitution which was framed by the British and is completely irrelevant; obscure; archaic and oxymoronish when juxtaposed against the sexual mores and practices of a so called progressive and enlightened Indian society.........
Noted actor Manoj Bajpai has thus far been roped in to essay the epochal role of the university professor while a few other reputed actors are being short listed to play the role of the rickshaw wallah; on being asked about the need to make this film; Mehta says; "the same is my way of my raising my voice against the reprehensible and deplorable tendency to marginalise and segregate people on the grounds of their religion; sexual preferences; practices and the like".........
"The same also clearly highlights my steadfast and vehement opposition to the draconian and archaic Article 377 of the Indian Constitution that expressly prohibits and forbids consensual and willing sex between two adults from the same sex even though the same act is carried out within the four walls of an individual's home and hearth".........
"How does a sexual encounter or romp between two willing and consensual adults make an iota of difference in the life and times of these self appointed and anointed guardians of our culture and morality who do a lot worse and then adopt an utterly hypocritical ;holier than thou' attitude that has more holes in it than the the moon"..........
"I have quite a few gay and lesbian friends whose housing societies and residents' welfare associations mirror both the state as well as these extra constitutional authorities that have abrogated unto themselves the role of the moral police; I for one am of the firm belief that only the individual concerned has the right to determine his/her sexual practices and nobody else on the planet has the right to either point fingers or then raise objections about the same": a highly disturbed and visibly fuming Mehta signs off.........
Well; I can't comment about you; but I for one whole heartedly endorse Mr. Hansal Mehta's views and take on Article 377; we are the land of the Kamasutra which is nothing more than a celebration and vivid description of the sensual and ergonomic art of love making; so can we cut out the unwanted and undesirable hypocrisy/moral policing and get on with the business of living our lives in the manner that we want to.........
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