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People of India (and of the world) are biased,
especially when it comes to “gender”. Large scale organizations are functioning
to support women in every part of the country. Everyone has simply assumed that
male is a dominant creature and the poor female needs to be empowered to secure
her rights. As a result, we have laws that favour female, and we have created a
society that severely discriminates against men. The feminists would argue that
look at the number of crimes against women ranging from dowry, rape to home
violence. The answer is simple – “Please don’t generalize”. There are unfortunate
crimes and let’s make our country more secure place for everyone, but it is
highly pitiful to feed into the public perception that the villain is always a
man. Imagine what will happen to a young guy if he’s involved in an accident
with a lady (of any age). Without a doubt, no one would give even one chance to
the boy to tell his side of the story, and the people would beat him until some
miracle happens and the guy finds a chance to abscond. This is a classic case
of gender discrimination that boys face.
The biggest adversaries are the “good” guys. I would
define a Good Guy (GG) as someone who always respects a woman and has no wishes
to play games with her emotions. One, who does not qualify to be a GG, is a Bad
Guy (BG). Because, the society and especially girls do not have any mechanism
to identify GGs from the pool of BGs, GGs end up being (mis)treated as BGs. I
have always been a GG (certified by my wife), hence I can safely write the following
memo on behalf of all GGs to the “Beautiful Girl”, who either mercilessly dumps
a GG or does not even bother having a GG in life.
“We, the good guys, very well understand the Bad Guys
around, and why/what they are hunting for. But, we fail to understand why you give so much of importance to the BGs. We
focus on studies and career only because we can provide shelter and security (physical,
economical, social and so on) to you in future. Things are so unclear and
uncertain. We don’t know what career we shall have, what will be our salary or
how we’ll take care of family. And because we are GGs, we consider our parents and
siblings (of both-sides, ours and yours) as part of our family, not just me, you and
our children. In addition, we also care for the betterment of the state and country
and the world we live in. Amidst all these daunting challenges of future
responsibilities, we remain committed to you. You also know we won’t cheat on
you. But, despite all of our truthfulness and candour, you end up having a
relationship with a BG. You make us realize “love is not just blind, but it is
highly foolish”. And “love becomes deaf” when you won’t listen to any of our
warnings. We would silently walk out of your life wishing, truly, the very best for you”.
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hy this Kolaveri Di is a song that brilliantly touches the gist of this feeling of millions
of GGs, also called “soup boys”, who end up being dumped or remain being
ignored and could never really figure out the why of "di's kolaveri”, which means girl's murderous rage. Actor, singer and lyricist of the song, Dhanush begins with, "Yo boys I am sing song... a soup song", the words that clearly support the analyses presented here. This song
has given voice to those millions of GGs, who always remained respectful, committed
and faithful yet received only kolavari, who otherwise were scattered
around the corners of the world attempting to understand that “why” in isolation and loneliness. This song has not answered
that “why”, but it has assured them that they are not alone; there are millions
of them. GGs have finally found some resonance in the form of this song that
there is nothing wrong with them. Perhaps it is the fate of that particular
girl with the “black” heart, which makes her a BG (Bad Girl), one who does not
respect man and wishes to play games with his emotions, and a better match with
a Bad Guy. A Good Guy on one the hand is
discriminated for the ills done by the Bad Guys, and on the other hand looses the
girl as she opts for a BG over him. This is indeed a tragedy. The last few lines of the song go like this:
"God-u I am dying now-u,
She is happy how-u?
This-u song-u for soup-boys-u,
We don't have choice-u...."
You decide:
(Courtesy: Sony Music India SME. Video shot during the recording of the song with the music composer Anirudh,Dhanush,Shruti Hassan, Aishwarya and Sound Engineer Sivakumar)
I welcome your comments....
*Shehnai is often played in traditional Indian weddings (at least in movies)...
Smart readers must have identified serious logical flaws in the article. The fact is that this article is for an intellectual entertainment, and no logic is needed for liking a song. Have fun and enjoy the music... Cheers :D
For meaning of Why This Kolaveri Di? Song Lyrics: http://buffernews.com/6585/meaning-kolaveri-di-song-lyrics
