Archive for July 13th, 2008
Bucking Fitch..and dim wits
“We live in four lettered age” – Karan Thapar
Rightly said yes judos for all who interpreted.. I am not talking about you tonight. Yes…the four letters and the dim wits are all on the house. Hold on a counter and click it the times you use the F word and you would be surprised. How this taboo has creeped in all our lives. In Bengal they say “oooi ma”, in maharshtra they say..”Bappa”…people used to say “Haye Rama..”…call it the globalisation or blame it onto the west(like we always do) we say “Fuck”…not once twice but variably large number of times in a day.
Bitch..is a word lot used these days. Instead of the old “Dayan….Papee Nagin” you see the word “Bitch” at the zenith of its usage in the B grade Hindi cinema.
Be it a pun,satire,a well thought hard hitting and intelligent verbal assasination and you always are disappointed with the F word being shouted in defense. Yes we live in the age of dim wits.
Where you dont get snappy replies anymore..Not even Holywood promises you those.
Cinema is reflection of culture..so they dont give a damn(Another four letter word put to good use) about the wits. On the contrary..the F word is a souvenir from the cinema. We can only blame it on the west..like we always do.
I pledge that I am gonna come up wid the wittiest replies..and gonna use the F word to its bare minimum….but since..looking at its uses…and places where you can just blab away all your frustration in just four letters….I think its gonna be difficult. I recently met a guy who used to use the phrase “Ohh Fuck man…Shit man” and the guy was so satisfied..and happy with his life..a bright smile on his face all the time. We later found out theat the source of his happiness was the F chants..which he piously repeated night and day …was the source of his happiness.
