I really feel sorry for poor Suman or even Nisha (where Tuffy sealed the deal) who most likely will spend a lifetime doing dhik tana dhik tana in the kitchen as they churned out bowlfuls of halwa. Prem is the poster boy for genteel sexism and sugar-coated patriarchy. So, while Bhabhi was a ‘Khushiyon ka Khazana’, Prem was more than happy to be mothered like a man child instead of stepping into the kitchen and actually pouring himself that glass of milk or serving himself the famous Barjatya thali of food. Prem: Who can forget saccharine sweet Prem? Quite like a chocobar, Prem had a suitably appealing chocolatey exterior, but underneath that beat the vanilla heart of a sanskaari Indian man who sang songs in praise of his shamefully overworked sister-in-law. Salman Khan as Prem in Hum Aapke Hain Koun.!ģ.
While one can’t really plan and plot on whom to love, to change yourself completely because the man you loved didn’t like your dressing sense, now that’s something I can’t digest anymore. Anjali had to completely change herself before he reciprocated her feelings. But sadly, whether it was Tina or Anjali, Rahul fell for both women after he saw them in Indian clothes and, in both cases, in a temple. From the friendship band, to the temple visits, and the ‘pyaar sirf ek baar hota hain’ resolve, Rahul was quite the dream guy. Rahul in Kuch Kuch Hota Hain was a rage when the film released. Also, apart from their passion for dance, did they have anything in common at all? I wonder. While Rahul was a passionate romantic in the eyes of the teenage me, I wonder now if he fell in love with Madhuri because she was like a character he had imagined, or because she was actually someone he got along with. Rahul from Dil Toh Pagal Hain organised dance dramas and found his muse Maya in the slightly miscast Madhuri Dixit.
The two Rahul’s I once liked quite a bit, were Rahul from Dil Toh Pagal Hain and Kuch Kuch Hota Hain. Rahul: When he was not playing Raj, Shah Rukh was playing Rahul. It makes me wonder why no one found his behaviour problematic when the film released, or it was filed away under ‘men will be men’ and actually romanticised. Not to forget that he feels her up to get even when she is wearing a backless dress. His claims of being a ‘Hindustani’ man who would never take advantage of an intoxicated Indian girl, meant that he actually agreed that Simran should preserve her virginity for the man she marries.
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