Voyeurism, or colour blindness?

I have been fixated on the Besharam Rang song through the summer holidays. I think SRK and Deepika look beautiful and I could watch it for hours on replay. Recently as I watched it, my sister-in-law gave me a funny look and said that that type of nonsense is what’s rubbish about the world. I didn’t get a chance to ask her what she meant, and am hoping you could enlighten me. This is the same SIL who gave me grief about watching Mimi - and after you enlightened me, I felt that I was a little smarter about the film. Why does my progressive SIL think the song is rubbish?

you really are a dull little anarkali, aren’t you? Let me tell you why your SIL continually wonders how the hell she married into a family of such dimwits and Art is meant to provoke our consciousness, our thinking, so that we take the time to understand the world and our place in it. Great art should inspire awe. Of course, art is not just something that is created, but also things which exist - sunsets, babies, the sounds of the ocean. So when a Bollywood song becomes derivative, and descends from a potential inspirational apex into base titillation, then you know our world is becoming rubbish. Besharam Rang could have been about SRK’s character’s interest in Deepika’s character. However, it is about physicality, for the voyeuristic titillation of the audience. It is base, with nothing inspiring about it. Generally, I hesitate to put down the work of artists - however, in this instance, all I am prepared to say is that the song is only useful for mindless folks who want five minutes of voyeurism. So for an unthinking, unfeeling, dead person like you, of course the song is great. But for progressive people like your SIL, it is just another example of the world turning to kachara.