Even if nothing happened, it was something to sing about - Hum Tum Ek Kamre Main Bandh Ho Aur Sher Aa Jaye. Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia got excited about being in the same room. Post the 90s, on-screen lovers did not depend on weather to get some action.īack then, when Raj Kapoor was directing films, romance meant getting accidentally locked in a room. The last of these scenes, I think, was Abhishek Bachchan and Karisma Kapoor in Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya Hai. Every second Hindi film in every decade had this scene - Saira Banu and Shammi Kapoor in Jaanwar and Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna in Aradhana, Amitabh Bachchan and Meenakshi Sheshadri in Ganga Jamuna, Saraswati. They would've shivered to death had the leading man not stepped up and used his body heat to save them (insert eye-roll here). The silly leading ladies kept getting caught in rain/snow/storm. In the good old days, sex was only a possibility when it was a matter of life (or rather death). So many scenes have vanished from Bollywood films along with the old brigade. No kaantas have been removed by any actor in the last three decades in any film.īlame it on the kaanta or the filmi keeda, I tripped into nostalgia. But it's 2016 now, so I considered the possibility that maybe no real damage was done to the man's ego because the ability to deal with a splinter no longer defines a hero (Hindi film or otherwise). The hero removing the thorn from a damsel's foot is a scene we've seen in countless Hindi films of the '60s and '70s. Later, as a person who has grown up watching Hindi films, I wondered if I had hurt the man's feelings by depriving him of the heroic act.
Given his dhai kilo ka haath, which is better suited to uprooting a tree, than maneuvering a delicate needle around a deeply embedded thorn, I declined and did the deed myself (pass the Paramvir Chakra already!). I take my pain as seriously as my pleasure, so there was a fair amount of screaming, till my knight in shining Armani went down on one knee and offered to remove the splinter. That crazy lady from the Kaanta Laga song doesn't know it's nothing to dance about. Last week, I was walking barefoot in Shirdi, when a thorn lodged itself in my right foot.
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