The Love Files

As our conversation veered around the battle of the sexes,the girls decided to come clean. “For decades men have had their way. They have rated women on the basis of their assets,but now women are smarter. While men go for pretty little things,we’d rather chase power,” said Bharucha,emphasising the three C’s; ‘cash,control and career’.

PKP,clears Ranjan,is not an out and out comedy. “I can never make a full on comedy,I have to weave in serious stuff to drive home the point,” he argues,declining any similarities to the recently released,Luv Ka the End. “This film is about girl bashing,about getting even with the fairer sex,” says the director. It was only recently that PKP ran into a trouble with the Censor Board officials for its use of the word — kutta — in the lyrics of a song. “Our word is nowhere close to lyrics from the film Delhi Belly. Just because it’s an Aamir Khan Production,no one has said a thing. The same applies to Salman Khan’s title song in Ready,or when Akshay Kumar pulls on a woman’s strap in one of his films. Then what right does the chairperson of the Censor Board have to behave as moral police?” he thumps,arguing that live-in relationships have been shown in films like Salaam Namaste,not to forget Deewar from the 70s.

But Ranjan cautions that the film can be “injurious to your relationship”. And that he has used the film as a platform to throw light on the conflicts and dynamics of modern day relationships. “It’s a satire that brings out the bone of contention,like career,being an only child,how joint families play a vital role in the foundation of a relationship etc,” says Ranjan,adding that intelligent women scare him. “They are a threat,but my next film,if I make one,will have the women getting even with men,” he says.