Moody wants a selfie museum (satire)

Moody was closeted with his PR minister Jet Lee – he was actually his Finance Minister but doubled up as I&B Minister as well. He was Moody’s troubleshooter and has been doing a creditable job till now. Moody was pleased with him.
Moody had several winners in his team who were women and he held them in high regard. Apart from Sue Sharma who handled foreign affairs, there was Uma-ji, who was an expert of the River Ganga, and there was Ranee-ji who looked after education.
‘I want to have a museum,’ Moody said.
‘What sort of?’ Jet Lee enquired.
‘To display selfies,’ Moody said. ‘Selfie is the latest fad and everyone has become addicted to it. It is an indicator of our progress.’
‘I know,’ Jet Lee smiled. ‘My kids are mad. They keep taking selfies and out of 100, they will select a couple and post them on Facebook.’

Moody gulped. It was so unfortunate that he was born so late in the day.
In the days when he had been a humble tea shop owner or the days when he would go about in half pants, no one had conceived the idea of selfies. If they had, Moody would certainly have had many more in his collection. They would have been assets for his selfie museum and made it a global attraction and ‘must see’ spot in travel itineraries. Who knows – his selfie museum could even earn heritage status one of these days.
‘Tell me,’ he asked Jet Lee. ‘Who invented selfies on cellphone? Who clicked the first selfie on a mobile phone?’ ‘I will put our research team on the job,’ Jet Lee assured. ‘I will ask them to contact Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Sundar Pichai. One of them must know.’
‘Please assign priority to this,’ Moody said. ‘Once you have identified him, get me his date of birth.’
‘You want to send him greetings?’
‘That will come later – once I know the date, I will pursue the matter with the United Nations to go in for a ‘Selfie Day’ – it should be the date of birth of the individual.’
Jet Lee grinned.
‘That will be just great,’ he said. ‘I am confident that the UN would listen to your proposal - as they did for Yoga Day,’
‘Yes - yoga had been there for centuries but no one bothered to assign it a proper place among the masses,’ Moody said. ‘Our yoga guru could have done it but he was busy making noodles and biscuits.’
Moody sat back in his throne – another plus point for him. No leader in the world would ever think on having a selfie museum. (to be continued …)

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Indians are still conservative and hypocrites to the core, whether we like it or not. While most of the TV serials show the leading ladies dressed to kill in dresses that reveals very little of their bodies, the accompanying ads show the girls in all their glory posing for deodorants, undergarments, hair removers, mobile phones and what not.
In order to control the urge of growing up girls from showing off too much skin and cleavage, colleges introduce strict dress codes and, in some cities, there sprout up moral policing brigades who try to ensure that the image of Indians are not sullied.

Skin show in English movies come naturally to the actresses because they do not feel embarrassed to shed their clothes in front of the production team consisting of the photographer, the director and host of other persons who have to be in attendance so that the sequence is filmed properly in the first shot itself. Getting intimate is a part of the script and they do not hesitate to do it, whether it be passionate love scenes and kisses or scenes in the bed itself and not just in the bedroom.
However, the same cannot be said about Indian movies. Here censorship is strict and skin show is taboo as such but there have been some enterprising directors who have managed to circumvent the barriers. Of course, they did not dare to go the whole hog – instead they have experimented and are still experimenting to see how far is far enough.
Gone are the days when the hero and heroine would come close and hold hands around the trunk of a tree which acted as the separator. Or – their lips would keep getting closer and closer for a kiss when a bird would suddenly fly away disturbing the concentration. Or - when a pair of birds are shown playing with each other’s beaks as a symbolic gesture of a kiss.
However, things are gradually changing and the Indian heroines are becoming bold as is the audience. The heroines do not hesitate to show off their assets. They do it not only via photo shoots but by donning dresses that reveal more than they hide. Thanks to the reach of the internet and being exposed to western cultures, everyone has shed their inhibitions. Group dances in which the heroine takes part with scantily clad dancers does not raise eyebrows any longer. Probably it is the influence of IPL cheer girls who had taken the Indian scene by storm as well as the ads of some TV commercials that had hordes of the scantily clad girls.(to be continued …)
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