Translation of article of Varsha Pathak

Translation of an article

Hi, I am Riddhi Jani. Here is the translation of some aspect of an article by Varsha Pathak. She is very popular among gujarati readers. She is writing a column named “aapni vat”. This article can be viewed as feminist reading. I saw her views  as appealing writing, so I tried to translate it.

      
        A question is raised in my mind after recently seen new and old films. That is: in our bollywood movies the subject of ‘Dosti’ or ‘Friendship’ is very much popular, which is sung frequently, again and again in our movies. We have numerous songs about friendship in our movies. They sing those songs like lovers, they hug each other, they sacrifices life for each other, they give great oblations for each other... But now tell me, why such type of ‘great friendship’ is shown only between two men and not between two women? We see one or two friends of heroine...but have you ever seen them hugging each other with singing songs like “ye dosti hum nahi todenge...”?

Very often, after many years a beautiful off-bit film like “dor” comes, in which the story of unique friendship between two totally different women was there. And in this film also, they women do not throw lofty dialogues of their friendship, or do not sing boring songs. In short they do not become loud in expression of their friendship. But such films are exceptional. Normaly we see men becoming loud with such songs “yari he iman mera...” Heroine only talks about her boyfriend with her friends.

Now, here is not the question of good and bad. I only think that which was the first film, which made the tradition of monopoly of men on friendship? Films are considered as ‘the morror of society’, then is it true that such “hum nahi todenge” like friendship cannot be exist between two women? Or it is merely (wrong) belief of people that such friendship cannot be exist between women? We hear “Aurat hi aurat ki dushman hoti he” type of stupid, nonsense lines more than one time, but in case of friendship there is only ‘JAY and VIRU’!!!

Again I tell that it is not the matter of ‘should be’ or ‘not should be’. They (film makers) are not interested in showing friendship between women, so they must have some solid reasons for it. But I got such thought and I have shared it with you!