January 19, 2008

Indian movies as the forebearers of heterosexualisation

The heterosexualisation process in modern India started with the advent of the Christian Britishers. And when they left, Nehru and others amongst the class of elite Indians who were in power and were extremely westernised and wanted to make India into 'Europe', started in their earnest to heterosexualisae the Indian society.
Heterosexuality was indeed contrary to the core of Indian culture and values. And, so when the Indian film industry started to copy the western heterosexual movies they seemed to contrary to what happened on the ground in the Indian society -- by portraying man-woman love -- and that too to such an extent that Indians associate movies with the story of love between a hero and a heroine. Every film must have a hero and a heroine, who fall in love and fight the society to be with each other. It has been the same thing for over 60 years of independance, and for Indians it is difficult to today imagine a movie which is based on anything else than a heterosexual love story. 
How contrary this was to not only the nature of humans, but the essence of Indian culture is clear from the fact that for many years in the beginning, people boycotted movies. For generations it was considered a characterlessness to go to view movies. But of course, and unfortunately, movies like media have a tremendous power to change the society, especially since it is so glamourous, and especially, because the powers that be were forcing the Indian society to westernise from all other quarters ... people's attitude towards movies changed, but love marriages did not become acceptable till about 25 years ago. Today, of course, it is a different story, eversince the third generation of the Nehru clan -- Rajiv Gandhi set about to greatly heterosexualise the Indian society. Today, of course, with the globalisation process he started, the forces of heterosexualisation are enforcing male-female sexual openness on our culture.

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