Technology has made cowards out of most of us. Now we have the luxury of saying watever we want to express, whenever we want to, either through personal chats, or to a global audience, via social media platforms. In an actual conversation, one has to pay attention to the listener's body language and facial expressions. Even a tiny twitch of the eyebrows or lips could tell us much about the other person's receptivity, or the communicability of our own ideas. But in the virtual domain, none of this comes into the equation, which , I imagine takes off a huge weight from the shoulders of those who don't have the courage to hold a heart-to-heart conversation in the eye.
Today, I got a chance to behold the changing art scene in my country, on attending a film festival of sorts.Filmmakers seem to be reacting to the noise on and off celluloid, through mostly silent creations.I list a few of my favourites here: A Beast Called Beauty - directed by Aakanksha Chitkara Maybe because I am a woman living at a time when India is renowned for objectification of and heinous crimes against women, this documentary film struck me the most and inspired this post.The film voices the common woes of our sex racked by the rigid concepts of beauty set by the society; a situation only worsened by the marketing techniques of fairness creams and other beauty products.However,the movie ends on a happy note, with the featured females professing to have realised that they have accepted who they are, and are content with themselves.I hope every girl out there does the same. In case your interest is piqued, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M1kI5FNz_g ...
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