Beyond Shubh Mangal Saavdhan: Bollywood films that brought sexual taboos out of the bedroom
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan is on the same lines thematically as Meghna Gulzar’s Filhaal and Shoojit Sircar’s Vicky Donor that addressed sexual taboos on the big screen.
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RS Prasanna's Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, that releases this Friday, is a light take on the bedroom issue of erectile dysfunction. On Throwback Thursday, we recall Bollywood films that have dared to discuss sexual and reproductive issues that had remained beneath the sheets
Meghna Gulzar's directorial debut sensitively dealt with the issue of infertility and the remedy of surrogacy and also threw light on the emotional ripples it caused in the relationship of Tabu and her surrogate Sushmita Sen
Ayushmann Khurrana comes full circle with Shubh Mangal Saavdhan as his debut film also dealt with yet another sexual taboo - sperm donation. Shoojit Sircar's film used humour to deal with the serious issue of infertility among men.
Harshvardhan Kulkarni's adult comedy revolved around a sex addict, played by Gulshan Devaiah, who even devises a sex philosophy to prove how love and sex need not intersect, in order to mask his addiction
Special mention: Abbas-Mustan's 2001 film would have been a breakthrough in this list had it not been for its convoluted and absurd storyline. The surrogate, Preity Zinta (who is also a sex worker) conceives Salman Khan and Rani Mukerji's baby. Just that the baby is not a result of artificial insemination but Salman and Preity's chori-chori-chupke-chupke bang bang (pardon my French).