{"id":1742,"date":"2016-06-24T00:33:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2016-06-24T00:33:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T00:33:12","slug":"neal-n-nikki-uday-chopra-tanishaa-mukerji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Neal \u2019n\u2019 Nikki: When Mini Skirts Made For Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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lose your eyes. It\u2019s 2005. Natwar Singh has been ousted in an oil scandal and a teenager with a bazooka forehand is making us proud in tennis. Playing in your head is the song \u201cNikki Bakshi, sweet n sexy, full on rocking, hot and happening.\u201d<\/span>\n\nNeal \u2019n\u2019 Nikki<\/span><\/i> came to our screens and changed our young lives forever. We were in 8th grade, and rumours started doing the rounds that entire sections of students were bunking classes to watch the film whose trailer had a surprisingly sexually liberated vibe. In the Bollywood of <\/span>Veer-Zaara <\/span><\/i>and Shah Rukh Khan, it was exhilarating to see characters speaking like we would do, talking about sex and boning like we only did with our friends in hushed tones. The film was also seemingly in on the \u201cSanskaari Bollywood\u201d joke, making an entire song <\/span>parodying Bollywood<\/span><\/a> love songs, while wearing funky glasses, outlandish mufflers, and Dev Anand\u2019s cap. They never kissed in the song, always going for a hug with an expression that said \u201cThis is so freaking dumb.\u201d It amazed us that there were people in Hindi movies who thought of Hindi movies like we did. <\/span>\n\nThe film did not let us 8th graders down. Nikki, who was drunk through most of the film, was in a uniform of mini skirts and bras, and Uday, who was not yet a laughing stock, had blue eyes and an extremely short mop, signalling a post-cool era. Nikki said stuff like \u201cI don\u2019t give a flying fuctch\u201d, showing a linguistic normalcy with words like \u201crocking\u201d (mid-2000\u2019s were peak rocking) and \u201cvirginity\u201d, and was just chill about things urban Indian teenage girls wanted to be chill about, making her a quasi-cult figure. Sure, she was more boy-crazy then they would\u2019ve liked, but you can\u2019t have everything.<\/span>\n\nOn the eve of the film\u2019s 12th anniversary, I rewatched it, but now that my hormones are no longer hopped up on puberty, I realized \u00a0we were pretty fucking stupid back then. We didn\u2019t question how every woman that Neal meets on his \u201c21 girls in 21 days\u201d trip is wearing bikini tops and sporting gigantic breasts (but then, why would we?), and all these women keep falling for Neal for no apparent reason. Why were most working class people he\u2019s meeting, like the cab driver and hotel concierge Punjabi? And why does Neal, of all people, act prudish when Nikki lays one on his lips unsuspectingly, saying \u201cBefore kissing, do logon ke beech mein kuch rishta hona chahiye?\u201d Like fuck, the dude literally came down to fuck 21 women in 21 days! How fast is he making emotional connections?! Why is Nikki always screaming while talking about boys in \u201cMera Pyaar Ghodhe Pe Aayega\u201d terms while chugging wine? And why, beneath all the sexual liberation, cursing, and kissing for pleasure, does it end up in the quest for marriage space? The questions are endless and 12 years later there are no answers. <\/span>\n\n

We\u2019re in an age where we don\u2019t need women to wear mini skirts to lay a claim on modernity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nThe year <\/span>Neal \u2019n\u2019 Nikki <\/span><\/i>came out, Bollywood was, in all fairness, trying to be modern. <\/span>Salaam Namaste <\/span><\/i>had a live-in relationship and <\/span>Socha Na Tha <\/span><\/i>featured a modern love triangle, but <\/span>Neal \u2019n\u2019 Nikki <\/span><\/i>was the only one which was wholly confused. The characters would just meander in a room where one door said \u201cTraditional\u201d and the other said \u201cNormal\u201d, leaving the film to come across as an inauthentic mess, and in a world newly engaging with Facebook, inauthenticity was easy to pinpoint.<\/span>\n\nBut life moved on, as did Tanishaa and Uday (thankfully). We\u2019re in an age where we don\u2019t need women to wear mini skirts to lay a claim on modernity. Modernity comes to us now in the gadda-carrying, salwar kameez-wearing Mahi Gill in <\/span>Dev D <\/span><\/i>to the chaniya choli-clad Kriti Sanon in <\/span>Bareilly Ki Barfi<\/span><\/i>. We\u2019re making cooler movies now and shedding less clothes. Everyone is happy. <\/span>\n\nExcept those poor boys in 8th grade. \u00a0<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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