The Love Ballads

Everyone of us has seen one of the many glorious love ballads played out on screen at one point of time or another.  And at least for a moment or more we have marvelled at the larger than life cinematography of these songs. 

Now let's take a moment here.  All of us have in our heart of hearts framed an idea as to what love is, what it looks like and other blah.  Although some of us,  have this hypocrisy of the new age 'Love is crap!'.  But come on, we do take ourselves down to Earthly pleasures. Attachment sounds sense. Isn't it? 

Anyway,  now as all the great minds and philosophers of the world have put it,  love is a relatively simple matter of fact. It is something which exists in everyone's life in one point of time or another. So what is this larger than life unreal portrayal of something that is so corny and common?

  Yes,  we all agree that the average mainstream movie making IQ of our times is terribly low.  But I am referring to a routine  which has been in place for more than half a century. Romantic songs shot in a dream sequence, a surreal location.  Ask yourself.  Why?

Somewhere in our underlying subconscious do we feel that 'romance' is a far fetched notion? As in getting attached to someone romantically is a misnomer in itself?  Hold your knives.  I hope not as well.  But just food for thought. Why is it then that famous directors(read brilliant cinematic minds)  have always portrayed love songs in otherwise grandeur sequences?

  And we always seem to lap it up easily. On the other hand, the 'sad' songs are shot in commonplace settings, mostly. Apparently,  if a person with no understanding of human emotions would perceive love as intangible and heartbreak as very very real.

Perhaps(or maybe not),in some abyss of human psychology,  we all know for a fact that true love,  Like the one we eulogise can never truly exist and what we see around us is too plastic to debate.
Does 'Love' really require such exaggerated depictions?

Think.!!

P.S -  From a believer. Not a pessimist. 

About the Author:

 Kunal Gupta is a Software Engineer by profession. A music aficionado and Literature enthusiast, Kunal is a big time foodie and admires 'Chandler'.