Bachna Ae Haseeno

Remember the great classic of the 70s - “Choti si Baat”. A young and naive lover does not know how to express his feelings to a girl. He follows her for days without achieving even an introduction or a seat next to her in a public bus. He is a complete looser until he goes to a “Colonel Julius Nagendranath Wilfred Singh” who has some deep wisdom of his age to pass on to his disciple... and guess what, this brings fortune to our character and he is able to win the war of love and we witness a “Happy Ending”.

Let’s turn the page to today and we witness yet another young and fresh lover who carries some “killer instinct” and is never tired of wooing as many girls as possible. “Bachna Ae Haseeno” is a story which ideally mirrors the manners of modern metro youth which is so casually driven when it comes to relationships. Our protagonist is a perfect six-foot, six-packed young man who has all the feathers in his cap to make him an ideal bachelor. And unlike our 70s story, he has got some unborrowed and inherent art of seduction with which he swings in love with women all the time. Though our story ends up with our character realizing the essence of true love and giving up his dignified “Casanova” status, this does not always find a mapping in a modern urban lifestyle.

Honestly speaking, who doesn’t want to be a character like the one in “Bachna Ae Haseeno”? Indian men were never so serious about having a six-pack or getting branded wears or for that matter going to a gym. They never had such a strong concern for appearance and such a high disposable income to spend on lifestyle. The dictionary was never richer with terms like “Metrosexual” and “Retrosexual” and never were “hot” and “cool” spoken of in the same sense. Having a girlfriend is a social statement these days and you simply don’t want to be outcast. And believe me things were never this simpler. You do not strictly have to fall in love to have a girlfriend. It’s no more an intractable problem and you have got some deterministic algorithms – some as simple as asking a girl out to the nearest McDonalds or Pizza Hut. And did you get worried about signing up some commitments? Don’t you worry! You can easily get away in the end with a statement like - “I do not know the reason but somehow I have lost feelings for you” - like you have had some feeling before and you are so sorry to say that. Or something like - “I think I should be honest to confess that I am no more loyal to you. You deserve someone better than me.” Your honesty will pay and you will break apart to flaunt your ex-girlfriend count. And it’s statistically proven that this has no negative impact upon your candidature for the next girl.

One of my girl friends wanted me to learn some lesson from the movie which coincidently had the actor working for Microsoft. Though a seriously working guy at Microsoft barely gets so much of free time to move around looking for girls, I would definitely miss no chance of doing so if I have all the luck. :P ........ So here is the lesson that I learnt - "You should flirt with as many girls as possible but wait for the final call until you get someone like “Deepika”. :) " Keep Moving till then.......