Few movies have had the kind of cultural impact especially on events like marriages that the extraordinary awful movie 'Hum aapke hain Kaun' had.
It changed the entire aspect of marriages in India, making them a lot more frilly, uselessly extravagant and wasteful and revived the fossilised traditions that never once seemed important enough to be celebrated with such overindulgence like the thieving of shoes for a price and injected them as this mega event that each wedding should inculcate, not excluding mehendi, ladies sangeet and even a cocktail party.
I mean what on earth??
Not that there's a problem with having these events, but the splurge that comes with it which never seemed to be present before the movie is overkill, and don't even let me get started on the wedding trousseau of not just the bride and groom but all the close relations and their kith and Kin..and god help if they're a part of some dance sequence for the sangeet event.
I mean it's ghastly.
And I was apart of all this madness twice! I say with some guilt.
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