Remember the couple Joe and Debbie from the movie? The characters were played by Arjun Rampal and Shahana Goswami respectively.
Debbie’s fashion designing career doesn’t get a kick-start when Joe’s band ‘Magik’ wins a competition and gets into the professional league. This disappoints Joe the lead guitarist, and when he gets less mileage than the lead singer Aditya (played by Farhan Akhtar) he walks out of the band in a fury.
Years later, Joe is a broken man for his career doesn’t do well. He can no longer play the guitar at the big stage. Joe and Debbie are married now and have a son. Debbie takes care of Joe’s family’s fish business. It is fair to assume that fashion designing and fish don’t go together. The difference between the two of them is that she decides to take up a job that is far removed from her dreams in order to support the family. He, on the other hand, is dejected and stuck in the past.
Our generation is caught in a flux. Women work and are economically independent. Men realize that there is indeed a fair chance that they get to pursue their dreams while the women run their house. The marriage suffers when the man is unable to meet success while pursuing his dream, and doesn’t wish to give up his dream. The woman gets increasingly frustrated for she is responsible now for the finances as well as the good health of the relationship.
Check this song between 2:30 and 3:24.
Later, when Joe finds an outlet for his music, he realizes how overworked his wife is and is back to being nice to her. If Bollywood is a fair indicator of our society, the man and his dreams remain more important than the woman and her dreams. The man can remain the teenager wrapped up in his lost dreams, while the woman matures for both of them.
Debbie’s fashion designing career doesn’t get a kick-start when Joe’s band ‘Magik’ wins a competition and gets into the professional league. This disappoints Joe the lead guitarist, and when he gets less mileage than the lead singer Aditya (played by Farhan Akhtar) he walks out of the band in a fury.
Years later, Joe is a broken man for his career doesn’t do well. He can no longer play the guitar at the big stage. Joe and Debbie are married now and have a son. Debbie takes care of Joe’s family’s fish business. It is fair to assume that fashion designing and fish don’t go together. The difference between the two of them is that she decides to take up a job that is far removed from her dreams in order to support the family. He, on the other hand, is dejected and stuck in the past.
Our generation is caught in a flux. Women work and are economically independent. Men realize that there is indeed a fair chance that they get to pursue their dreams while the women run their house. The marriage suffers when the man is unable to meet success while pursuing his dream, and doesn’t wish to give up his dream. The woman gets increasingly frustrated for she is responsible now for the finances as well as the good health of the relationship.
Check this song between 2:30 and 3:24.
Later, when Joe finds an outlet for his music, he realizes how overworked his wife is and is back to being nice to her. If Bollywood is a fair indicator of our society, the man and his dreams remain more important than the woman and her dreams. The man can remain the teenager wrapped up in his lost dreams, while the woman matures for both of them.
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