THE NEW MANTRA

These are a few things I learnt from Parineeta - a film by Pradeep Sarkar, based on Saratchandra's novel by the same name:

1. 
   Indian heroes have always been spineless, weak-charactered men who ask others - Ab mein kya karoon? (what should I do?) They do absolutely everything on others' commands.
2. 
   The new Indian mantra is - SHEKHAR, TOD DE! (Break it Shekhar!)
   
3. If you want to reach your wife, you break the wall that separates your house from hers, with a marble fountain. First you try demolishing the wall with all kinds of bars and steel rods and spades and what not, and finally you succeed with a marble fountain. You hit and hit and hit with all your might, and then brick by brick the wall gets demolished, and you create a nice big hole in it. And your wife (!) is standing on the other side, you just step forward and take her home through the hole in the wall! As simple as that! (Guess it was supposed to be symbolic - breaking walls.)
   
4. And you quench your anger by hitting your wife as many times as you want! (This is the only thing the hero can do, without being told.) She's always gonna forgive you!
   

Anyways, I liked the film, has a very nice look, the actress Vidya Balan looks beautiful and acts well too, the music is excellent, and you get to laugh a lot! And learn some very interesting things!