Well, I guess it happens to some - but not everybody. Most women as per what i know do not have any particular food fetishes. They just eat a lot more of everything than they should have and then take two whole years to shed the resulting flab. Unlike Preity, who just coolly disengaged the asteroid from her regular tummy and went back to her normal sexy self.
But yes, I guess pregnant women are a special breed who need to use the loo way too often. They laugh, and cry, for no reason at all - thanks to the hormones surging through their system. It's no cake walk, for sure and I'm wondering what is this filmi fascination with having a baby - whether it makes sense for the mother or not?
You can argue the baby is a 'life' from the time of conception or argue otherwise. Salaam Namaste was a movie, so we knew Saif and Preity would get together in the end. Otherwise? How was Preity planning to support the baby??
I for one am firmly on the side of women having the right to abortion. It's no big deal in India, of course. Ads for "Pearl Centre" abound in all places - offering to do the job for as little as Rs 100. Prevention is always better than abortion but abortion is better than bringing an unwanted life into this world.
Why it makes sense
Steven Levitt of 'Freakonomics' fame has explained the drop in US crime rates over the last 10 years by linking it with the historic Roe vs Wade judgement in 1973, which legalised abortion in that country. His argument - supported by intuition and then statistics - is that the drop came about because a large number of unwanted babies (of poor, young, black mothers) were never born. And hence a whole generation of potential criminals never came into existence.
Not everyone agrees with the argument but, anticipating the emotions his theory would arouse, Levitt points out that "economics is about what is true, not what ought to be true".
Kya kehna
And here I have my own strange little experience to recount. Ten - well almost eleven years ago - home pregnancy kits were not easily available. Most women go for the test alone - no mother, mother in law or husband in tow come along as in most of the cases. Gynecologists are most of the times pretty cool, practical and non-moralistic about the whole thing. No allusions to paap or lectures on sin.
Steven never mentions "of poor, young, black mothers" in his theory on the correlation of abortion and crime rates. I think you have done him a disservice by expanding his work. The fact is any unwanted child is likely to turn criminal if not moved to a nuturing environment.
In fact, if one comes across his book, they would know that he furthers his theory by showing a corollary; when a nation reversed its position on legalised abortion within 18 years its crimes rates increased. The country--Romania
Pre-marital sex and out-of-marriage babies, a glad-to-know-and-see thing is an ever increasing rational thinking amongst the current generation all over the world (20 something, living away from home, titillated watching Polyesthers' crowd). Yes, PMS, pun unintended, is a reality.
I am only glad to see that it is being affected upon both pre-steam (Condom, hamesha, yehi hai sahi [may be this is an initiative propelled by the nasty acronym AIDS]) and post-steam (as mentioned in his theory).
I'm also glad that we as a society are becoming less uncomfortable discussing these things.
Finally, I'm very glad that books titled, 'First Information Report for teenagers' exist which tell our xxteen something siblings, children and acquaintances about the teenage version of birds-and-bees.
Kaanta laga notwithstanding, we'd make for a rational and informed society very soon.
Unlike in the western society, sex before marriage is not a prevalent concept in India [ Note: I am not talking about the so called *upwardly mobile* crowd of the metros]. So the problem of teenage single mothers is not as big a problem as in US or elsewhere in the western world. The children of illiterate parents who live in abject poverty are the problem here in India. Mostly these are future candidates for criminals.This can be checked only by education.
Bringing a baby into this world should be something that should be decided on more substance than just a sonograph (of course it was oh cho chwweet, but that's not life!), I am sure it wont move a rape victim or such. As for the movie , it was just timepass, but the last part where they made delivery a laughing stock was disgusting, and also it seemed like Nick, Saif's character in the movie never ever intended for the two separate rooms to remain so from the beginning.
Kinda off the track, but *my* Salaam Namaste joke:
They should've named them "Dick" and "HumpHer" in the movie. Sums it up well ;-)
Seeing a sonograph of a baby would not be cho-chweet enough to move many - or most Indian women - to keep a baby conceived outside marriage. That's just plain stupid - and unfair - for both mother and baby. Better think a million times before you welcome into this world a baby, whether with a salaam or a namaste!
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