Sixty ninth filmfare awards happened in Gujarat some time ago. The handsome Ranbir Kapoor riding high on the success of his latest movie Animal which got him the filmfare, spoke an ode to his father and said missed his ``naughty '' daughter Raha at the ceremony.
Like any doting father, he said how coming back to her after a hard day's work was a blessing.
Raha with a mix of K genes-predominantly Kashmiri and Kapoor--looks like a doll. Even her pictures online can warm any heart. As a mother of two kids, I can't help but say ``Mashaallah''.
However as Ranbir mentioned her while receiving his award for Animal, I wondered if he is proud enough of the movie to show it to Raha when she grows up.
I know he was playing a character and portrayed it most powerfully, I always think of him as one of the better actors among the current lot. But now that he is father of a daughter, would he want her to see the movie as a teenager where he tells a lady her `pelvis is big enough to give birth to healthy babies'', or where he asks another woman to `lick his shoe to show her love for him''.
I have a pre teen daughter and I would never want her to see this movie. Now that it is streaming on Netflix , I watched it to just understand the liberties a director can take in the name of creativity. Watching the movie became imperative for me, after I heard the now famous quote of the director where he says`` if a man and woman in love cannot slap each other, they are not in love''. Or when the lead actor said `the film started a healthy debate on toxic masculinity''.
Debate regarding what-the over dose of mindless violence, where people are not killed in ones and tens but hundreds at a time. The blood, the gore and the misogyny, the movie had a tone of porn.