In recent times, in fact since the day the movie Cocktail has released I have read many articles blaming the lead Gautam to be of low character and not clear of what he wants in life. That the character is a hypocrite, who dumped the girl he used to hang out with just because she was very open minded, extrovert, outgoing and an independent working girl whom his mother wouldn’t have approved of, doesn’t go down well with me.
First of all Gautam did not choose between a working and a non-working woman because if one sees the complete movie he would know that both the leading female characters, sooner or later, had a job. The differentiation he did was between those two ladies out of whom one indulged in drinking day & night whereas another did not, one used to pray to god and another did not (Though may not be an issue for many but Saif's character may be preferred it that way), one wore decent clothes in front of people you are meeting for the first time and another did not (I really don't advocate wearing just a shirt in front of any stranger to be decent, putting aside the fact that Boman & Dimple were Gautam’s uncle & mother). Why do we always mix dressing decently with dressing conservatively? I don't understand. Last but not the least the difference of love interest, according to the story and a dialogue in the movie, also lied in the fact that one girl came to him very easily and one just ignored him which he took as a challenge.
Keeping in mind the above facts I don’t feel the character was a hypocrite and just chose one girl over another since he was bored of the first one or wanted to please his mother because in that case he wouldn’t have stuck to his true love till the end when he had an easy option of Veronica by his side. It was just that he fell for the first girl because of his similar lifestyle and later the goodness of the other girl made him realise his true call in life.
Written By: Gaurav Karmakar
First of all Gautam did not choose between a working and a non-working woman because if one sees the complete movie he would know that both the leading female characters, sooner or later, had a job. The differentiation he did was between those two ladies out of whom one indulged in drinking day & night whereas another did not, one used to pray to god and another did not (Though may not be an issue for many but Saif's character may be preferred it that way), one wore decent clothes in front of people you are meeting for the first time and another did not (I really don't advocate wearing just a shirt in front of any stranger to be decent, putting aside the fact that Boman & Dimple were Gautam’s uncle & mother). Why do we always mix dressing decently with dressing conservatively? I don't understand. Last but not the least the difference of love interest, according to the story and a dialogue in the movie, also lied in the fact that one girl came to him very easily and one just ignored him which he took as a challenge.
Keeping in mind the above facts I don’t feel the character was a hypocrite and just chose one girl over another since he was bored of the first one or wanted to please his mother because in that case he wouldn’t have stuck to his true love till the end when he had an easy option of Veronica by his side. It was just that he fell for the first girl because of his similar lifestyle and later the goodness of the other girl made him realise his true call in life.
Written By: Gaurav Karmakar
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