I finally watched 7/G Rainbow Colony.
It’s a very good movie that surely strikes a chord. It’s very realistic. It connects instantly with the heart. One small problem. It has the wrong morals. Which is why it is a wrong film. Which is why it should have never been made! Before you head for my throat, read on…
There is nothing heroic about the hero… an ordinary middle-class boy next door who does not have any super talent he can boast off. When he likes a girl or thinks he’s in love with the girl, he follows her, he pursues her, tortures her, stalks her, and even sneaks into her window when she’s about to take her T-shirt off… He has no self-esteem even after she slaps him, asks him why he’s begging for her love… He chases her like the Hutch dog…
And finally, the girl gives in!!!???
Come on, Selvaraghavan… do you know what you just did?? You’ve just given all those millions of people in the state HOPE. You’ve given them reason to tease, chase, torture, stalk and pursue a girl, who has no interest, no end, out of the sheer hope that one day she will see your love. Watch the movie and think if you’d like anyone do that to your sister, if you had one. I would kill the bastard! And not sympathise with him.
If you love someone, don’t force yourself on them. Give them their space.
Have some self-respect and have the girl love you for what you are. Think of the consequences of a relationship born out of begging and pleading. Are you ready to continue living with that equation… a master-slave equation? What was Selvaraghavan thinking?
If 7/G was a bad movie, I wouldn’t be complaining cuz people would be able to see through the indulgence of the director while making his autobiography. But here, the guy has made it sooo damn realistically, incorporating every possible thing an average Joe would do to woo the girl and in a way made the people in the audience believe that there is hope for them. If he’s trying to say that ugly losers like Ravi Krishna could bed a girl like Sonia Agarwal by the end, by just chasing the woman no end, it is a very scary proposition considering the impact a powerful film has on society. 7/G is a more than powerful, brilliant film that has raw appeal.
And our society is rich with these middle class lovestruck road romeos who follow women without realising that today’s laws consider this as sexual harassment. One movie like 7/G would make these road romeos believe that they are heroes. One movie like 7/G could give them the courage to chase any pretty woman on the road and continue even after the drubbing they might receive in the process. One movie like 7/G could change a road romeo into a psycho obsessed stalker.
Which is why it is a dangerous film. A wrong film.
Our country isn’t ready to handle realistic cinema yet. Simply, cuz people absorb morals from every film, and sometimes the wrong ones cuz they think they are real.
True, our cinema reflects our morals. But the morals from 7/G aren’t the ones we want our society to have.
MADRAS INK. 