Cinema Found Me

In the modern times, the concept of motherhood has always been debatable with women questioning that why it is only a mother's responsibility to take care or bring up a child. While most men and most mothers argue that men don't have "motherly instincts" in them, the new Netflix series "Single Papa" breaks or rather challenges that myth. You must have heard the saying "If he wants it, he would do it", and that's exactly what this series vouches for.  We meet Gaurav Gehlot (Kunal Kemmu) who, like most of the men out there, believes that a human's life has only a few purposes - do well in school, do well in college, secure a good job, get married, have a kid, retire, marry these kids off and die. He's from an affluent family, so, he can afford to not have a goal or dream of his own. Being a pampered rich kid, everything was served on a platter for him, like literally, but he failed in recognising his wife's needs, which leads to them ...

The Girlfriend and Telusu Kada have had their own share of fandom on the platform called X aka Twitter for all the right and the wrong reasons, but I truly believe that these two films reveal the kind of men women don’t want in their lives.  Lets start with The Girlfriend - We are introduced to Vikram - a character who mistakes his arrogance for his confidence. When he says - If I want, I can have you - you’re sort of impressed because you’re like - "Ooo, I like that attitude". But he is like an onion, the more you peel, the more it burns your eyes.  Vikram is a typical narcissist man who thrives in his "I, Me, Myself" world by surrounding himself with yes-men. He becomes aggressive if anyone in his life goes against his will. When he picks Bhooma over Durga, he knows she is gullible and under confident, which will make it easy for him to control her - something that wouldn’t have been possible with Durga.  In a couple of scenes, Vikram draws similarity between Bho...