The Tramp That Had Nothing on

The tramp that had nothing on....

Those who have leered at women, lusted for them and gone through discovering just that little bit more, I say to them: come, see me I was born this way says Protima Bedi rationalising her streaking for the launch of Cine blitz magazine. (Relax! the article isn’t any erotic ride).The 26 year old Protima adds “I shed my clothes, my inhibitions, my conditionings by outdated social norms so that you too can discover yourselves.” (1974). Such power of an assertion portrays her rightly as a woman of substance who doesn’t give a damn, to what opinion the world holds for what she does or what she thinks, there she stands immovably on the inspiring end. But (like always!)We the emotionally starved people of India made it look so ugly; her freedom of expression was looking like a publicity stunt for a magazine, that someone so forthright and open like her backtracked and wanted to hide this thing later. We indeed don’t deserve people like her, our pace of living our lives is slower than our minds just to avoid the change, ready to meet end before any part of change itself. So terrifying is change for us. All we need to do is shut up about each other, focus on ourselves, liberate that tortured soul to walk in the sun, when each day would a celebration and each expression smells freedom.

This was an attempt, a gesture to portray freedom from the doctrinal chains, to declare our raised threshold, not that we prefer watching each other naked, duh! We aren’t animals! It’s that we avouch our independence to see beyond the walls of our own righteousness.

Buzzing off from this issue to a reel one, the one with women who bare their skin on screen, to intensify the depth of the characters they play in mainstream cinema(obviously not the pornographic ones!). The extremely talented and professional mother of two Kate Winslet, explains. "A scene with that level of intimacy involving nudity, you know, it's always nerve-wracking, and you...