The Dirty Picture - a daring effort to bring out Sex from the Closet!

Let me confess right at the outset - I absolutely and I mean absolutely loved 'The Dirty Picture'.

For the first time someone has dared to make a movie that tells us in the face how hypocrite a society we are when it comes to sex. Anyone who has lived in Chennai, and I have for a full 17 months and 2 days, knows that Chennai tops the list of most disgustingly hypocrite society on Sex. We are a country of a twelve hundred million plus, a country that is home to the Kamasutra and the Khujarao temples but still abhors public display of affection. We are a movie industry that not only embraces but celebrates and makes multi-millionaire out of sub-standard actresses like Katrina Kaif and Bipasha Basu but our Supreme Court ruled in as late or a early as March 2010 that pre-marital sex and live-in relationship, though immoral, are not criminal offense.

The Dirty Picture brings this all pervasive hypocrisy out in the open and celebrates it in a way it has never been done before. It is a movie that is worthy of being praised as art cinema that also has entertainment, entertainment and entertainment.

Apart from this serious societal take, following are my additional comments on this splendor of a movie:

1. Tushar with his jumping jack fantasy bedroom dance on 'Ooh La La' has finally made his dad, the original jumping jack, proud. He acts his true dumb and ugly looking self in the movie - someone rightly said, nothing is more natural than natural itself.

2. Vidya Balan can finally consider herself a truly offbeat actress and also realize that the moment she dresses up in anything but a sari, she leaves all of 'Delhi Behanjis' behind.

3. Imran Hashmi can run but never hide - he was and would always be the serial kisser. He can try to act but then its easier to build muscles than learn dialogue delivery.

4. Bappi Da - you literally and figuratively prove the saying 'Old is Gold'

5. Last but not the lease, Balaji telefilms has finally shown that they can do more than Saas Bahu serials, much much more.

Once again, i sign off by repeating - I absolutely loved The Dirty Picture.