About forty five minutes into the latest offering of Dharma Productions I realised that Karan Johar had dumped me and perhaps most women who are about my age. He and Dharma Productions were now catering to the next generation of young boys and girls for who the definition of love, romance and fun is discernibly different. We lapped up the sensitive, subtle and soft love of KKHH, and KKKG and KHNH where the heroines dressed up in fuschia and silk, still had dreamy stars in their eyes, blushed at the hot looks of Shahrukh Khan and cried when they lost the love of thier lives. This new gang of gals and guys actually says "I hate luv stories" and have other plans for the years we spent finding and losing love. In Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani and Student of The Year, romance is not the key ingredient. In many ways these movies are not so much love stories but rather stories about people who are in love. They cover so much more about these people. Love and romance is no longer the driving force of these stories or the lives of the people in them.
As I near forty I have been wondering if it should have an impact on the way I dress, what I should plan ahead for and maybe even how I have fun. The age and the physical ageing has been easy enough to accept but maybe some of the social aspects have been difficult to get a handle on. So maybe this is the nudge I needed to tell me that I am finally part of the "older generation". There is a whole generation of people younger than me who feel and behave differently.
So thank you Karan for being there with just the right brand of romance when I needed it and now for subtly showing me that it is time to grow up. Even as you dump me and my kind, we can still watch re-runs of our favorite flicks and go back occasionally to the land where we were once the reigning queens of someone's heart.
As I near forty I have been wondering if it should have an impact on the way I dress, what I should plan ahead for and maybe even how I have fun. The age and the physical ageing has been easy enough to accept but maybe some of the social aspects have been difficult to get a handle on. So maybe this is the nudge I needed to tell me that I am finally part of the "older generation". There is a whole generation of people younger than me who feel and behave differently.
So thank you Karan for being there with just the right brand of romance when I needed it and now for subtly showing me that it is time to grow up. Even as you dump me and my kind, we can still watch re-runs of our favorite flicks and go back occasionally to the land where we were once the reigning queens of someone's heart.
