While We Wait For 'Jee Le Zaraa', Here's What We Really Need In An 'All Girls Road-Trip¡¯ Movie!
After making our generation romanticise the idea of 'bromance' and road-trip for years, Farhan's next road trip film 'Jee Le Zaraa' will star Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif.
¡°About the time the girls took the car out.¡±
Farhan Akhtar confirmed his next directorial, Jee Le Zaraa, with a cast that one could have only dreamed of!
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After making our generation romanticize the idea of 'bromance' and road-trip for years, Farhan's next road trip film 'Jee Le Zaraa' will star Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt, and Katrina Kaif.
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After Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar's successful attempts of showing us the real world of rich people holidaying in exotic locations with movies like Dil Chahta Hai, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, and Dil Dhadakne, finally, it's time for women to go on one real adventure.
The idea seems cool and enticing, but can we please break through all the stereotypes that movies have time and again established in all-girls movies?
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We are done with movies revolving around women discussing clich¨¦s of their mushy love troubles. We have done countless reruns of SATC (Sex and the City) and Four More Shots, please.
We are tired of seeing women sobbing through heartbreaks because now, we deserve a mature, more real, and coming-of-age authentic drama with women on the forefront!
1. Travel compatibility between friends
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Instead of over the top drama, an all-girls road trip movie should test how real friends fit into the world, both emotionally and geographically, because travel compatibility is a real thing.
2. Budget issues? Not everyone can afford the same level of luxury on a trip! Not everyone gets paid equally in a friends' group.
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Not everyone in an all-girls group earns over a lakh to afford the same luxuries in life. Focusing on real pay disparity in several industries, maybe for once, a multi-starrer could talk about real issues women face.
3. Let's finally admit that Indian roads are not SAFE for women!
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How safe are roads for women? Can we finally talk about this and no matter if we are talking about international routes or our very own ¡®incredible India,¡¯ it¡¯s high time we see an actual representation of issues that women drivers face, including gender stereotypes, road rage, and other crimes that put women's life at stake while driving at night?
4. Can we finally talk about hygiene and sanitization issues? It¡¯s easier to find Domino's on Indian roads than finding a clean powder room or washroom!
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Can we talk about how difficult it is for everyone in the group to align their schedules and finally book tickets? From innumerable WhatsApp groups where one or the other person quits because of passive-aggressiveness to choosing the ¡®right kind¡¯ of the hotel, the real issue with planning an all-girls trip is to ¡®make it happen.¡¯
5. Who will bell the cat? Let's finally talk about all the drama that unfolds when we seek permission from our parents!
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Hello, parents? No matter how old you¡¯re or how many accolades and achievements you¡¯ve achieved in your life, parents will always be more protective and worried about their daughters taking an all-girls road trip. And it doesn¡¯t matter if you¡¯re a ¡®papa ki pari' or ¡®Government officer Sharma Ji ki beti,¡¯ convincing parents and getting their approval can be a plot of a movie in itself.
6. When you're the only single person in the gang, all your girlfriends are either engaged, married, or have 'someone.'
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This one is a legit cringe issue. No matter how close you¡¯re to your girlfriends, you can¡¯t keep on hearing them talk about their partners all the time. There will always be at least one person in the group who will ALWAYS conveniently drop details of her +1 in every damn conversation you have!
7. Let's finally address this: A travel group will always have one fussy eater!
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The one who is always on a diet or only wants gluten-free! No matter how close you¡¯re with your girl pals, there will always be something that can quickly get on your nerves, like the one who is always on a diet and keeps on making everyone¡¯s life miserable because they¡¯re unable to hunt down gluten-free options or stick to their diet! While all you want to do is enjoy a plate of French fries with dip, their constant looks will keep on making you feel guilty about your ¡®unhealthy¡¯ choices. (But come on, road trips and vacations are all about eating because vacation calories don¡¯t count, isn¡¯t it?)
8. ¡®Real conversations¡¯ about real issues rather than the superficial level of conversations about men in their lives or petty issues in their privileged lives.
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It could be fulfilling to see women talk about sexism at the workplace, pay disparity at their place, and how they¡¯re are trying to break toxic patterns with their own family and partners.
9. Can we see an honest lesbian relationship without making it look like a huge deal?
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It's high time we see the LGBTQ+ element beautifully unfolding in the story instead of the same fluffy caricature of difficulties Indian women face while coming out of the closet and homophobic people judging them. It would be refreshing if we get to see an organic relationship brewing between two women.
10. What do women really want? Not just freedom to enter the bar at any time of the day and drink without being judged or hurl abuses.
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Many Indian web shows and films have conveniently assumed and shown that feminism and equality is basically restricted to drinking and hooking up without being judged. Let's get over Aisha & Four More Shots, and maybe it's time we delve deeper into messy parent-daughter relationships, sexism at the workplace, and how women need period leave more than chocolates on women's day.
