Loitering around passively in the busy shopping mall of Bangalore, one lazy weekend, doing a little window shopping, my attentive eyes did not miss the color that was rather a common factors among most of the shoppers there-Pink something! Pink was undoubtedly the unanimous , uncrowned princess of the 'fashion world', flavor of the season.
Thinking about Pink kind of set my mind reeling back as I succumbed at its trending popularity, I looked sheepishly at men flaunting "pink" attire! Me and my friend found a not-so-busy junction to sit back and relax, the moment I was waiting for, to do some critical scrutiny.
Red is for Rage and White is for Peace. How can they ever make a combination also! utterly un-religious and staggeringly silly, total disharmony and it simply indicates the crossed swords!Like this, the very origin of the Color Pink is a clashing diversified kick off!
The mix itself is a dreadful mismatch, the contradiction in pair , while things donned in Pink hoists the lack luster deathlike livid expression, knowing a thing or two about the dullness, so called "naive, cuteness, dainty, sublime and pretty" virtues about pink, how could I but not share my frustration on how "Pink fever" is infecting masses like a deadly contagious virus! For this, hang me if you dont agree or give me a high five if do, I believe it doesn't kill to have an opinion, it is not killing me!
Pink is the color of those who are Flummoxed and exasperated by not being able to have an opinion and unquestioningly follow the "trend" just because it is the trend!??
That is just definitely not me. Though I have no particular personal rivalry on this Perky color, like in some stereo typical bollywood classic , where in the protagonist, unaware of his reincarnation, shivers and faints at the sight of the usual fire sparks that relates to something from the Shadows of the past! Nothing of that sort. I just cant seem to accept the fact that conventional color of girls is being "mis-used" by the male clan!
I figured out the reason with much exasperation, that my aversion even to the most tempting dessert on the earth 'strawberry cheese cake', culprit is "the flavor, the color and the strikingly unpleasant( as it occurs to me at least)aroma". Same holds good for the Strawberry smoothie.
Earlier Pious Cosmetic brands, made colors targeting women, keeping in mind the very fact that "rose" celebrates womanhood and they designed the cosmetics that amplified embellished feminism, redefining the delicate feminine attributes. With the changing times, Gothic schism became alarmingly popular and colors like panther black, midnight silver, jewel green, royal purple and hues of blue wer introduced to the world of cosmetics, with that the 'fairy tale' of Pink(rose) became just another legend and most of the soft colors became 'outdated'.
What happened in the past one decade in the B-town had the greatest impact on the uproar of "pink fever", before that I want to remind you all of that one funny story, which is not a story but a "real life incident" which happaned not-so-long-ago.
As is it just fading away from our memory that the junior Bacchan was in lime light for the "wrong" reasons, quite some time ago, for having adorned the very feminine "hairband",which once was very traditionally popularized as a "style statement" by heroines of 60s'. Inexcusable offense! If you think Bacchan junior is being forced to wear what he is donning, you have another thinking coming. More alarmingly, in fact, he seems to actually be enjoying himself, showing off an absolutely feminine side of himself which I would rather prefer to call "alter ego" ,very less of us were aware of! Was Ms Rai not a sufficient enough reason to grab all the lime light? The result, however, is the same as felt by those witnessing the typical paunchy gent with convertible-mauled hair and the blonde on his arm: absolute embarrassment. Stepped in many fashionistas to be the Devil's advocates, and what followed was history!
Did I hear anybody mentioning "Dostana"? unmitigatedly justified!
The stud next door whom I really admired secretly for the masculine gestures and traits, also appeared one morning wearing (in)famous Hair band??!!! "Sigh", I muttered under my breath,pretending as if I haven't noticed his ugly looking hairdo pulled together to add to its ugly gimmick with a hairband! Yes, you read it Right, it was a HAIRBAND! And they returned "metro-sexual man".
Okay, I'm a die hard fan of Hrithik roshan, that doesn't leave me chioce than to also admire whatever he promotes, be it the bikes he patronizes which also has a disclaimer note at the bottom of the advert clearly stating, "the following stunts are performed by experts under controlled conditions, do not try this at home", be it the self acclaimed delicious cookies he popularized or the mobile network disastrous commercial , last not but least very popular soft drink, long forgotten , for good!
But it is really unforgivable when he appeared in the cover page of the mainstream film monthly magazine in a Pink Tee! what is happening??? Fashion faux pas, it was hard to belive my own eyes, I double checked and then again double checked just to make sure my eyes were not deceiving me!
I called up my best friend, "I'm in this book store, you will jump off your feet after hearing what I have to say", she reverted, "My dear Khabroo, what is that you are so hysteric about? what is biting you?", I narrated the fashion disaster I just witnessed, she said she had to hold the railings of the stairs to get a grip on the Jelly legs, naturally I say, we both practically worshipped Hrithik roshan! And then that whole evening was spent on discussing smugness that, when heightened, invariably culminates in increasingly sloppy, fashion statements, blindly followed by millions of die hard fans, for whom it is like some unwritten law to follow the captain, reminds me, "smoking on screen was banned by the censor board" why not they make a commendment against men wearing PINK! Anybody listening?
Fashion gurus raised eyebrows, designers fained out of "OHHMIGAWD" gaffe and eventually learnt to "live with it" as they did not have courage to Knock off the block , it was the Hrithik Roshan after all. And to great extents it looked "out of the world" on him, not in the sardonic sense of course. Needless to say, he always deserved irony free adulation. Exception, yet again proves the Rule. The person who had the last laugh was "karan Johar"!
When VJ Anusha, in her uptown polished chic accent endorsed the 'girly' color tuning out to be the "latest black" which is frenzily popularized from Justin Beiber to Akon! Watching my favorite Talk show was a little nightmarish that day, if you do not call it exaggeration. She signed off saying "Like I always say, keep it stylish with PINK, the new Black", all I could bring myself to say was "How I wish, this show had an unlike button"!
Come February, the season of love, all those in love, regardless of age, tier and all those things that are arbitrary, rush to gift shops, buying presents for their sweethearts, love will be in air and so will be the red and PINK hearts!! It is that one essence of the season, when designers, merchants and all those in the business industry encash upon the weakness of the vulnerable love birds. Town would be painted in mostly Red and partially Pink! Everything would transform into Pink color, from sugar candies to expensive dresses, from Barbie dolls and soft toys to cell phones and stilettoes. Watches, perfumes, accessories, jewellery.. Pink, pink, pink all around but not even one that deserves pat of appreciation! Its just that incurable mania of masses, to fall for anything that has suitable price tag. Consumerism, you are a merciless godawful addiction!
My another friend makes fun of me for having fallen for the Romantic Vamp, Edward Cullen,who is not so "hunk-like" but is hearthrob of zillions of twilight fan following across the globe and even streching its aura to "beneath the earth", not to mention female fans for obvious reasons. And that fateful evening, we were watching this award function, enter my Hero, Robert Pattinson! My jaw dropped a mile as he walked the red carpet,unashamed, unapologetic, unpretentious – all laudable assets, in Pink tuxedo, it was not a exact pink , but something like peach or gradient of pink! That was the last nail on my coffin, practically! Ever since,I even stand up for Bittoo Sharma,played by "Ranveer Singh" in Band baja barat ,the boy is mongrel-rough,yet entertaining, he is graceless and boorish still ,without my knowledge my heart slowly melts for this lout so scruffy!
What is most important, in this dizzyingly evolving information age: An idea? Drive? Originality? Innovation? Ambition? Intelligence? Getting there first? Or are we all to make our own convenient quick-mix of the above, doing whatever it takes to get what we want?? all right lets agree upon the conclusion that we need to be "be different, act different" from the norms , make our rules and swim against the current, I agree gentlemen, but let alone the color which are meant and just meant for "girls", donning it doesn't make you look any ritzy,sassy and urbane. You resemble the Lame duck that was trampled on by forced pattern , you are sure to break few hearts! 'Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus', so are their respective representing colors "blues and pinks", please do not mix them up and make an awful job of it! Just because that girl looked "cool" in blue tees, you need not wear Pink one and try to act "cute"! While she looks terrific in Blue, you will look thrashy in Pink.
I would have conveniently concluded saying,despite of its herculean effort "pink" has miserably failed to get a wild card entry in "heavy metal/progressive rock" culture, my friend next to me was playing "The Gnome" on her phone, she looked at me smirked and said "Pink Floyd", my face turned crimson,I stammered and said, "its just a name"! By then guess I had grown "comfortably numb".
