I went to watch Piku today considering it to be an ordinary Bollywood movie with a not so typical subject- CONSTIPATION. It started with a constipation stuck irritated father and a selfless duty obliging daughter. A typical household, with regular problems.
As and when it proceeded, it talked about how women ignore themselves for the welfare of others and by others I really do mean her husband, her father and mother in law, her brothers and sisters in law and everybody else. And then came the intriguing thought, if girls are supposed to take care of the people around them, then why get married only. The parents who have really taken the pains of giving a birth to her, raising her up, taking care of her- why shouldn't she be taking care of them only. Why has the society made those expectations for the girls to get a training in her paternal home to take care of the poeple around her and practice the same at her in-laws place. Why do a girl has to take permission from her in laws to go meet her parents.
The movie talked a lot about liberation of women and people saw constipation. I don't understand why people become ignorant when some sense is thrown away at them. I guess, they suffer from loose motions when such things are fed to them.
Yes we live in a society where women are free to make a career for themselves and create their own identity, but still the is care of either her father or husband. Why cant she just be! All the powerful women are envied all across the globe, but what about the women who were so supressed to utter a word of their choice? Why isn't a son-in-law responsible equally for his wife's parent's well being?
Too many whys to ask, but I know that all will go in vain, because no one is 'man' enough to acknowledge and answer. Nobody realised that 'man' is just a part of 'woman'.
For now, I will let the 'men' be 'men' and women taking care of them!
