WE’RE all suckers for a good love story, but unfortunately, not too many of us today are suckers for love! They just don’t make love stories like they used to anymore!
As veteran Dev Anand revealed in his autobiography Romancing With Life, “We shook hands, and let the handshake linger. From good friends to close friends and then to lovers. And our love affair became the talk of the town, nay, of the whole country.”
In her authorised biography, the dream girl of the ‘70s Hema Malini attempted to explain her love with much married fellow actor Dharmendra, “Nobody calculatedly falls in love. It just happens! He recites his poems to me and I tell him about my new ballets and also about the new flower that has blossomed in my garden.”
Most romances don’t last beyond a season, “Love can’t survive if there’s no job, no money, no food on the table or a gas connection. Today, survival is more important than true feelings.” In times of recession, finding and keeping your job is higher on the priority list than the hunt for real passion. Contemporary living calls for a work-life balance, where work calls for high commitment levels. While this has changed the equation, calling for equal partnerships, and yes, huge egos, it also provides an opportunity for creative and individual expression.
“The present generation wants the best of all the worlds. Our perpetual yearning for the ‘real thing’ makes us hop from one relationship to the next.”
“People have low endurance levels. Egos are sky-high. True love calls for compromise.”
Movies too, reflect the new reality. 2008’s breezy youth flicks Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Bachna Aaye Haseeno saw the heroes flit in and out of love. Director Siddharth Anand opines, “In today’s urban scenario, people go through a series of relationships before settling down with that someone special.”
“The whole notion of love is more practical today to the extent of evaluating whether it’ll last, even before one starts.”
But, despite all the modern-day cynicism, the search for love in its many-splendoured glory continues.
Whenever love happens, it still has the capacity to make one’s world go round… for as long as it may last!
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