Super Man's girl friend ..

This is a striking similarity between superman, bat man and the spider man. You have mary Watson who doesn’t love peter parker but loves spider man. And whats-her-name-who-loves-batman or let me say Nicole kidmann, who loves batman but not the real one and then you have this latest whats-her-name-who-gives-birth-to-superman-kid but doesn’t love the bespectacled Clarke?

Then you have all the princesses who waited and finally met their Prince Charmings who were not less than any super heroes. Why is that, this concept has been accepted by people from so long? I can see two reasons.

Super man is the alter ego of a Male. This male is a normal guy, decent looking, good humored, kind hearted, hard working. But he has that inner most urge to be more than that. He wants to save the world from evil, he wants to be popular, he wants girls to drool over him, actually one in particular! And he wants to be every other thing that makes him perfect. Hence he creates a super hero, as I said to satisfy his alter ego.

But what about the spider man’s girl friend? What does she represent? She represents the age old saying that “The women are never satisfied”. They are always looking for that prince charming which alas they never find except in movies. They want the guy to be witty, but when he lampoons her, she becomes insecure and says “mera mazaak kyon udaate rahte ho”. TWTGTB (short for they want the guy to be) sporty, but won’t discuss the form of sachin tendulkar: “cricket, cricket, cricket, aur kuch soojhta nahin hai kya tumhein”. TWTGTB intelligent and aware but will never discuss the Indian policy over LTTE: “Mujhe kya karna hai ki sri lanka mein kya ho raha hai”. TWTGTB to be self dependent and have a personality of his own, but wont allow you to wear a black shirt with a black jean: “matching kapde to tumhein pehanne hi nahin aate”.

Ok Ok, I will stop here, other wise I will be accused of plagiarizing from the song “ladke not equal to ladkiyan” from Hum Tum which I was NOT.

So coming back to the original topic, I want to mention one consistency which I so dearly love. And that is the James Bond’s girl friends. He has a new girl friend in every movie, infact three. One of them will be in the first scene when james bond will receive the secret-new-mission message. Other will be an accomplice and will join forces with him, yeah yeah helly berry, and the third one will turn out to be a vamp, you will come to know this in the later half of the movie. So we are going to have a new james bond, I hope he is as good as brosnan.