The government, left red-faced by controversies, is right now busy saving its own beleaguered betis -Vasundhara Raje, Sushma Swaraj and Smriti Irani - who have provided much-needed colour to the disunited Opposition’s cheeks. The saffron brigade is fast turning pink. The spoilsport NDA sarkar believes that girls have had enough fun and it’s time to bachao (save) and padhao (educate) them. Wildly empowered, India’s reel/real daughters haven’t looked back since then.Ĭut to 2015. In their own ways, Anupam and Amrish kick-started the Beti Bhagao movement. Four years later, the walnut-like Amrish Puri (hard outside, soft inside) went a step further when he told Kajol in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge: “Ja Simran ja, jee le apni zindagi.” Life, in this case, was an all-expenses-paid holiday across Europe, with an alpine romance being the unexpected icing on the cake. The film was Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, and it was Anupam Kher who tempted Pooja Bhatt to follow her heart and shock the hell out of a conservative society. Back in 1991, when we got the Santa Clausian gifts of liberalisation and globalisation, a loony tycoon encouraged his daughter to flee the mandap, where she was set to marry an unfaithful film star, and go into the arms of her journo lover.
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