Yesterday, I was talking about the movie, “Maya Memsaab”

Maya resides in every woman’s heart. She depicts the desires that a lady has, buried deep down within her. I don’t mean that every lady wants to have a long chain of lovers with whom she can sleep.

It is believed that you can never know or understand a lady. “Maya Memsaab” is the secret key to understand a lady. You watch this movie and the complexity of a women’s heart would be clear – crystal clear.

Let me explain: MAYA, the main protagonist of the movie is a woman and believe me only a woman. She is not a daughter, a wife, a mother, a friend…. nothing else but just a woman!

Maya’s father introduces her to the doctor as MAYA MEMSAAB, so true, Aren’t we treated as princess by our fathers, who ignores all our short comings and praises us even on the smallest achievements.  [Much to the envy of our brothers…]

MAYA knew her desires and wanted to fulfill the same and so she expected her husband, a common man, to understand her hidden desires. MAYA interprets her husband’s gestures in her own manner to believe that he only loved her. But, eventually, her husband was unable to prove his love (the way she wanted) and she was frustrated. She even plots a murder scene and expects her husband to react in a dramatic manner, but, the husband was only interested in calling the police, rather than killing himself for MAYA.

Sometimes we do lie to ourselves also, I hope many of my female friends would agree that, though we wanted love, care, support (the list is endless…….), but showed that we are strong enough and don’t need those. We always like to be pampered but many a times we don’t express the need or are busy enough to subside the feeling. Once in a while, we do want our lover/husband to do those stupid acts.

MAYA wanted to have a fairyland at her home, white curtains, long flowing bed-sheets ………

Don’t we want the same, but because of the practical problems (White gets dirty easily!) we ignore the desire. Here is the contrast, I said before MAYA was only a woman. She was not a daughter, a wife, a mother, a friend…. nothing else but just a woman!

Her list of lovers should not be treated as her having extra marital affair, it was just an extension of fulfilling her hidden desires. She had a clear idea about her desires.

Women do have a MAYA in them, but they have other responsibilities also, family & children, career, daily chores and so don’t get time to realize the need to be MAYA. Women are so busy with the routine life that they cannot even think of themselves.

So, MAYA was no different, though the portrayal was a bit extreme as the movie concentrated only on the woman’s side of a woman’s mind.

I hope not to have hurt sentiments through this post!