BLOG NO. 2
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2004
davani kanavugal...
It was a weekend dedicated to sitting at home .. .doing nothing .. with no agenda as such... My folks were at home and so it was Sun and jaya TV all the way... there was no escape from it...
Was watching Khushbu in one of those game shows for housewives or something like that.. was plesantly surprised at the way she has adapated to south.. her Tamil vocabulary in particular is amazing... except for a tinge of hindi in her tamil accent. She is so spontaneous... actually the tamil audience is so forgivingn... for i am not sure if the north india couterpart takes Kamal or sridevi's heavily accented hindi so indlugently...If sridevi survived and thrived in bolloywwod it was due to her looks and the figure that she has so painstakingly maintained ... same holds good for rekha and hema malini to a great extent...
Talking of khushbu ...she is modelling hereself to be the role model of the south indian bahu...her silk sarees differentiate the otherwise typical "blue and orange" .. "green and blue" kanchivarams that the south indian womanhood did not deviate from for decades ... khusbu's blouses ah.. that's one thing to talk about... too bold for the conservative audience that she caters to...or is she stretching them to new levels of boldness ???...the next time I would not be surprised to see some off shoulder silk cholis with a heavy lipstick in chennai weddings ... man... fashion has arrived in Tamilnadu ...
For all the idol worship ( temples et al) i am not sure if the junta that she appeals to would get as bold as her... for one thing is certain.. that she is not doing another pepsi uma...
For pepsi uma was a madras girl at heart ... she did not step out of her boudaries of what madaras defines as its modesty... Khushbu is trying to stretch the boundaries of modesty that the conservative tamilian population has other wise defined for itself...
I am told by my sister's friend that there is a sect of tailors in madras who are silently doing their bit to preserve the tamilian modesty ... they refuse to pluge the neckline below 7 inches...and would give a moral bhaashan upon asked to do so (the pramod navalkars of chennai)...
Not so long ago one would not see the potrayal of a married woman in tamil soaps in anything other than a saree... off late the soaps show them in figure hugging salwar kameez ... the ones that are sold in abundance in the wholesale shops at hindmata in mumbai or at pothys in tnagar... i wonder ... when it would be that jeans and tops would be cool to potray a "good" married woman...
Sahana .. k balachander's ... main character in the serial with the same name ... did experiment with some outrageous yet " modern" attires and accessories...
When i was a student at Stella maris college ... which by now is more than a decade ago... there were two classes of students... the "davani "( half -saree) kinds and the "punjabi dress" kinds...( the jeans clan was a miniscule minority then ).
These were two different social classes and there was hardly any mingling among the two.. probably it differetiated those coming from families where they were first time graduates and the other from slightly affluent / progressive lot...
academically the "davani's" were as good as the " punjabi dresses" ones...if not better if one closely looked at statistics .. but their lack of sophistication ... and their lack of mastery over the queen's language ... kept them away ...
10-12 years hence I hardly see anyone patronishing the "half saree" ... it was then to me, an abhorable, uncomfortable piece of clothing depicitng adolesence and the impending adulthood... to be worn only during family functions...but today when i look back... it is such a graceful attire... there is something feminine about "pavadai davani" which the subsequent modern versions lack...
While i quite agree that travelling in the chennai buses with a saree or a half saree can lead you to being rubbed , caressed or even pinched on all unwanted parts of the body ... the modern attires do depict a sense of self-confidence... but the fact that they cover you better against the possible sexual advances of the Sexually deprived male commuter is not guaranteed ... on a crowded bus you could still have the hard thing brushing against you ...irrespective of whether you are draped in a saree or salwar kameez ...
Was watching Khushbu in one of those game shows for housewives or something like that.. was plesantly surprised at the way she has adapated to south.. her Tamil vocabulary in particular is amazing... except for a tinge of hindi in her tamil accent. She is so spontaneous... actually the tamil audience is so forgivingn... for i am not sure if the north india couterpart takes Kamal or sridevi's heavily accented hindi so indlugently...If sridevi survived and thrived in bolloywwod it was due to her looks and the figure that she has so painstakingly maintained ... same holds good for rekha and hema malini to a great extent...
Talking of khushbu ...she is modelling hereself to be the role model of the south indian bahu...her silk sarees differentiate the otherwise typical "blue and orange" .. "green and blue" kanchivarams that the south indian womanhood did not deviate from for decades ... khusbu's blouses ah.. that's one thing to talk about... too bold for the conservative audience that she caters to...or is she stretching them to new levels of boldness ???...the next time I would not be surprised to see some off shoulder silk cholis with a heavy lipstick in chennai weddings ... man... fashion has arrived in Tamilnadu ...
For all the idol worship ( temples et al) i am not sure if the junta that she appeals to would get as bold as her... for one thing is certain.. that she is not doing another pepsi uma...
For pepsi uma was a madras girl at heart ... she did not step out of her boudaries of what madaras defines as its modesty... Khushbu is trying to stretch the boundaries of modesty that the conservative tamilian population has other wise defined for itself...
I am told by my sister's friend that there is a sect of tailors in madras who are silently doing their bit to preserve the tamilian modesty ... they refuse to pluge the neckline below 7 inches...and would give a moral bhaashan upon asked to do so (the pramod navalkars of chennai)...
Not so long ago one would not see the potrayal of a married woman in tamil soaps in anything other than a saree... off late the soaps show them in figure hugging salwar kameez ... the ones that are sold in abundance in the wholesale shops at hindmata in mumbai or at pothys in tnagar... i wonder ... when it would be that jeans and tops would be cool to potray a "good" married woman...
Sahana .. k balachander's ... main character in the serial with the same name ... did experiment with some outrageous yet " modern" attires and accessories...
When i was a student at Stella maris college ... which by now is more than a decade ago... there were two classes of students... the "davani "( half -saree) kinds and the "punjabi dress" kinds...( the jeans clan was a miniscule minority then ).
These were two different social classes and there was hardly any mingling among the two.. probably it differetiated those coming from families where they were first time graduates and the other from slightly affluent / progressive lot...
academically the "davani's" were as good as the " punjabi dresses" ones...if not better if one closely looked at statistics .. but their lack of sophistication ... and their lack of mastery over the queen's language ... kept them away ...
10-12 years hence I hardly see anyone patronishing the "half saree" ... it was then to me, an abhorable, uncomfortable piece of clothing depicitng adolesence and the impending adulthood... to be worn only during family functions...but today when i look back... it is such a graceful attire... there is something feminine about "pavadai davani" which the subsequent modern versions lack...
While i quite agree that travelling in the chennai buses with a saree or a half saree can lead you to being rubbed , caressed or even pinched on all unwanted parts of the body ... the modern attires do depict a sense of self-confidence... but the fact that they cover you better against the possible sexual advances of the Sexually deprived male commuter is not guaranteed ... on a crowded bus you could still have the hard thing brushing against you ...irrespective of whether you are draped in a saree or salwar kameez ...
TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2004
fighting the blues
Somehow everything seems to be going wrong...
It has been a long wait and i do not know how much more to wait before i can call it a day... it is easier said than done... " never say quit"...
Soemhow it is more difficult when you have nothing else to do and have too much of time in between..
Everyone seems to ridicule you... you own folks seem to take you for granted... anger is seething within you... but you cannot take it out lest should you be misunderstood...
There is that feeling called the gut feeling which says ... give up on this one... this is not gonna happen...
It has been a long wait and i do not know how much more to wait before i can call it a day... it is easier said than done... " never say quit"...
Soemhow it is more difficult when you have nothing else to do and have too much of time in between..
Everyone seems to ridicule you... you own folks seem to take you for granted... anger is seething within you... but you cannot take it out lest should you be misunderstood...
There is that feeling called the gut feeling which says ... give up on this one... this is not gonna happen...
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