Monday, June 9, 2008

Hold it!
Before you proceed, I would very much want you to watch this video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JKioNI8huo4

Alright, presuming that you have watched the video and also presuming that you have time to munch on some non-sense I would like to talk about Indians and hair and coconut oil and mustaches. Come to think of it, Russel Peters does have a point. We Indians are more than usually hairy. Being endowed with lot of it myself I see the funny side of it.
While Indian women have long flowing tresses which the dutifully oil everyday Indian males flaunt their gift via tufts of hair under their noses.Oh yeah I'm talking about the great Indian moustache which has faithfully provided canopy for lonely upper lips for generations. Wait for a moment and think of anyone you know who is over the age of forty, your dad or maybe an uncle.Does he have a mooch? I bet he does.
I myself had the misfortune sprouting one at a rather age.Some inventive name calling and a few embarrassing passport photos forced me show it razors edge.While this reduced the name calling to certain extent and I no longer looked like a 80's porn star, it didn't go well with my dad. Coming from a family in which an uncle actually had a special comb to style his moustache and spends half an hour everyday in the process,I stuck out like sore thumb. If I had become a cross dresser they would've been less disappointed.Its easy to see why they would fell that way.The moustache is symbolic of masculinity especially in S.India. All major public figures sport one however out of style it has become elsewhere.Remember the time when Indian cricket was infested with moustache wearing(is that the right word?!) men? Kumble,Srinath,Prabhakar...
Then of course theres the brigade of movie stars.Superrrrrrrr Starrrrrrrrr Rajinikant,Mamooty,Kamal Hassan and not to forget Anil Kapoor,who in spite changing fads has always remained faithful to the nose bug.
The great Indian moustache has of late, been losing its patrons.In an age where the ladies seem to cringe at sight of facial hair,with an exception to the cooler looking goatee's, it seems to have gone out favor. Chest hair shaving metro-sexual's,who are top of the list of today's "role models" aren't helping its cause either.Put a moustache on M.S.D or a C.Ronaldo and you will be assured that the ladies' heart would no longer race at the sight of them. Males in the 40+ age bracket, bald guys and probably a few villains in the movie industry are the ones who are probably prolonging its demise.Not that I'm very disappointed though. Shaving that god awful the thing was the best move I've made yet.
If you've read thus far without a yawn,go ahead and check out this video.Its from the 90's sitcom Seinfeld.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSf2O80brbU

2 comments:

Half-Light said...

Lol good one, im reminded of tamil movies from the old days, when dialogues of tamil movies which sounded something like "Eyyyyy nee mesai vecha amblai ah?" Which roughly translates to a mousche being a symbol of manliness. Imagine that today

bala said...

lol i've watched a few tamil movies myself and this one is quite the punch line.