BINDIEWOOD: Crossover Films as the Bad Girls of Bollywood

3:00 AM


There are two types of women in classic Bollywood films: the Good Girl and the Bad Girl. The Good Girl is virtuous, chaste, and possesses traditional Indian values. In the end, Good Girl is happily married off to Handsome Hero. On the other hand, the Bad Girl is outspoken, often smokes and drinks and dances like her hips are on fire. You can be sure that at the end of the film Bad Girl will either a) die, b) develop cirrhosis of the liver (or some other vampish disease) and die, or c) bleed to death in some way, alone and unloved. Over the last few decades, film critics have drawn the obvious parallel between good/bad and east/west.

Well, duh.

But what is it about the Bad Girl? There is a seductive darkness about her. She's the outsider. The rabble-rouser. She reminds us of the hidden parts of our animal nature. She's the thing we love to hate. As depth psychology pioneer Carl Jung taught, whatever we hate is the very thing we have repressed in our own psyches. It's our shadow.

Within this dualistic symbol of the virtuous woman/whore, we can see the direction that Indian independent cinema is heading. It's not that crossover films are analogous to the outspoken heroines of Bollywood films in that we love to hate them. In fact, it is the opposite; crossover films are becoming more and more popular. Desi audiences are clamoring for more films that speak to their own dualistic realities as progressive traditionalists, as eastern westerners.

Crossover films as entities, therefore, are not looked at with suspicion; it is the subject matter and its honest interpretation of that subject matter (i.e., homosexuality, racism, inter-cultural relations) that is still shunned by conventional Indian cinema. While "real" topics like terrorism are in fact being addressed in mainstream films such as "Dus," it is with little more than action-packed flash and panache, not human experiential realism.

So is the Good Girl that much better? Or are her methods simply more socially palatable? Looking at a typical Bollywood love story, for example, you can bet you'll be treated to the earnest, anguished voice of the hero singing about his love for a woman who has done nothing but shun him. After a few handfuls of the same scenario, you have to think: How much can these poor guys take? Granted, this could be the result of my debauched western view of things. My father gave me one piece of advice before I entered the world of men: "Don't be a tease." (Actually, that wasn't the exact word he used. Let's just say it was a compound word that ended with "tease" and started with something that rhymes with "sock." You get the picture.) Yet in countless Hindi films I saw women in the solitude of their bedchambers, awaiting their suitor, scenting their hair with sandalwood only to then turn coyly from the man's longing.

I was shocked. Was this not the same caliber of cruelty as kicking a starving dog? Was the passionate man not acting in his god-given nature, as we women do when we paint our faces and adorn our bodies to be attractive? Would it then imply that a woman agreeing to sex would somehow make her less worthy? Perhaps the Good Girl becomes Bad the moment she embraces not only her lover's desire but her own -- the moment she accepts her own truth. Perhaps the Indian independent film that bares its own truth is fated to suffer as the Bollywood Bad Girl does.

Who is more misleading, then: Good Girl or Bad Girl? East or west? Bollywood or "Bindiewood"? Perhaps no one.

Life will always need balance. With light comes dark. When I think about the future of Indian independent filmmaking, I have hope it will eventually emerge from the shadows and take its place as an accepted facet of popular Indian cinema. Until then, crossovers will have to remain on the fringe, undulating, seducing with their bold honesty, reminding us of who we really are and how we really live -- but most importantly, still being seen.

"Bad" Girls

2:59 AM


OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to review critically the data on the adult outcomes of adolescent girls with antisocial behavior. METHOD: Five literature databases were searched for studies on the adult outcomes of girls with either conduct disorder or delinquency. RESULTS: Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. As adults, antisocial girls manifested increased mortality rates, a 10- to 40-fold increase in the rate of criminality, substantial rates of psychiatric morbidity, dysfunctional and often violent relationships, and high rates of multiple service utilization. Possible explanations for these findings include a pervasive biological or psychological deficit or baseline heterogeneity in the population of antisocial girls. CONCLUSIONS: This review establishes that female adolescent antisocial behavior has important long-term individual and societal consequences. At present, there are insufficient data to enable us to prevent these outcomes or treat them if they occur. Future research should include cross-sectional studies detailing the phenomenology of female antisocial behavior and longitudinal investigations that not only track development into adulthood but also explore the role of potential modifiying variables such as prefrontal lobe dysfunction and psychiatric comorbidity.

Meet the girl behind the porn: adult star Carmen Luvana is living proof that Latin girls' hips really don't lie

2:44 AM

MF: You recently won a beauty pageant on The Howard Stern Show. Congratulations!

CL: Thanks. I didn't know there was going to be a pageant. I thought I was going to go on the show and make myself orgasm, but it turned out to be a contest. I was really nervous because sometimes Howard can be very critical, but he was very sweet and complimentary.

Coming from Puerto Rico, are you influenced in the bedroom by your Latin blood?

Well, the guys really like that I can move my hips well. A lot of girls, when they're on top, just sit there, and the guy has to do all the work. Also, since Spanish is my first language, I speak it to the guys and they love it. I can't help it. It just comes out!

What was it like shooting your first scene in an adult film?

It was definitely weird. [Laughs] The director was a girl who was younger than me, and she was telling me how to masturbate.

In your latest movie, you get dominated. Did you like that?

It was a hard shoot. I was pretty uncomfortable being submissive because I'm not really like that. But then I realized that the character I play only goes along with it to get what she wants, which I thought was quite cool. [Laughs]

MF PORN OF THE MONTH

O: THE POWER OF SUBMISSION

STARRING CARMEN LUVANA, NINA HARTLEY, AND KYLIE IRELAND

Luvana plays a fetish photographer sucked into a world of kinks and bondage. Whether they're being tied up or chained to the bed, Luvana and her "sisters of slavery" adore being bossed around,

Teenage Girls

2:40 AM

United Artists is set to develop "Rules of Dating for Teenage Girls"

Based on the young-adult novel "The Heartbreakers" by journalist-turned-novelist Pamela Wells, the story centers on four best friends and their on-again, off-again dalliances with boys.After several of the girls are dumped, they devise a set of rules they are sure will snag any man and prevent future breakups.Jennifer Ross is in talks to write the script, with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas attached to produce.

Adult SMS / Text Messages

9:17 AM

  • Sardar sent SMS to his BOSS:
    “Me sick, no work”
    Boss SMS back:
    “When I am sick I kiss my wife try it”
    2 hours later sardar sms 2 boss:
    “Me ok, ur wife very sweet”
  • A young girl after her honeymoon
    came fully exhausted and tired,

    When her friends asked her what happened?

    She replied :
    When this 70 year old bastard told me
    he has saved a lot from last 50 years,

    “I thought It was MONEY”

A short thing
its get longer as u hold it
& pass between woman’s breast
& enters into a small hole
What is it?
Ans. cars seat belt…u dirty mind


In a bath room, a boy touches a girl everywhere! You Know whose that boy? Stupid It’s Lifeboy Soap! Dirty people always think dirty.

  • when sum1 touches u
    &
    u don’t feel it,
    its IGNORANCE.

    When sum1 touches u
    &
    u feel it, its LOVE.

    but when nobody touches
    u but u feel it, then its KHUJLI;-)

A man while making love to his maid,
exclaimed ‘Martha ur are sweeter than my wife’

The maid smiled and said
‘i know ‘cos the driver always tells me so’

  • Ssshh….Dont afraid..
    its me..
    jus putting a blanket of love upon u
    so that u’ll never feel that u r alone..
    Love you
    Have a cozy sleep full of heavenly dreams….
    Good Night

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