It must be more than just a mere co-incidence that Madhur Bhandarkar’s latest film has a rather corny (yeah corny, even for the maker) connection with the controversial reality show, Bigg Boss.Calendar Girls hit theatres today and this time around the so called ‘realistic’ filmmaker has weaved a story around the glitzy, glamour world. Surprise, surprise!
Just as we can’t get over the hangover of watching such a bad film, we need to tell you that there is a glaring (and almost, unintentionally funny) reference to the popular reality show which is all set to come up with it’s ninth season soon. Bigg Boss, modeled on its international counterpart Big Brother, has been a hugely popular show known for the ‘inmates’ that participate in it and the controversies they create. The show is infamous for getting personalities from all walks of life who are notorious for their deeds or have created a few ripples with their scams, affairs or even criminal cases! The criteria to enter the show, as understood by masses, is to make headlines for all the wrong reasons and display some utterly ridiculous behavioural traits!
Madhur, with his stupendously stereotypical thinking, has used this situation in Calendar Girls. Sorry to get the plot out (we’re assuming that you won’t attempt to watch this flick anyway) but one of the Calendar Girls, Paroma Ghosh played by Satrupa Pyne, hits a rock bottom after getting embroiled in a match fixing controversy. She has just been bailed out from jail by her family who promptly disowns her, her boyfriend who gets her into this situation and runs away leaving her in a lurch. All she can do now is to commit suicide (because, face it, according to Bhandarkar women, have no second shot at life after messing up once). Just as she is contemplating jumping down her high rise apartment, her door bell rings and surprise, surprise! the makers of Bigg Boss have personally come to persuade her to enter the show!
They convince her that the only way she can salvage the situation she has gotten herself into is by participating in the show. She mumbles something incoherent, nods and the next thing we know is she walking down the ramp, trudging the characteristic red suitcase as the winner of the season! Without naming the show, Madhur makes it very clear that he is talking about the same! This is another case from the film where its director tries to ‘throw light’ on the lives of sort of ‘fallen’ glamorous people! This scene, like almost every other scene in the film, fails to shock you or give you a perspective about the modelling/showbiz world!
It would be rather interesting to know what famous models of the country who have been a part of Bigg Boss have to say about this ludicrous stereotyping!
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