Materialism quashes human emotions

Even these days, when the saga of modernism and reliance on modern ethics has commenced in the Indian society, we often come across incidents of separation between couples due to trivial reasons. Well, these episodes are not confined within married couples only but among young lovers also. Though in the conventional Indian society wives are dubbed as more responsible, a boy is believed as perpetrator if there is a break up with his fiancée. Any such accusation is not baseless also since in most cases boys are found to be apostates. What will happen if the reverse happens? How will the Indian society look at the girl who dumped his beau? Will she be considered as slovenly woman?

A similar incident is in the making. It has been learnt, from unnamed sources, that Freida Pinto has repeated the rare incident and has dumped Rohan Antao. Don’t you know of Freida Pinto? She is an award winning actress in her debut film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). For her acting she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Slumdog Millionaire won five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and seven BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, and has been nominated for ten Academy Awards.

But it seems that, the hero of this tragic episode, Rohan Antao is not aware of these latest developments. He is a 25-year old director of a marketing firm in Mumbai and is a “very private person”, according to his own confirmation. When he was approached by the HT City, Rohan expressed shock and said, “Let me speak with her. Has she really given this statement [about breaking off with him] to the media? She could be talking about something else.”

Though he is in a denial, sources confirm that the funeral is complete and his name has been expunged from Freda’s personal diary. But Rohan, so they say, supported Freda in her modeling and acting career and even helped her develop her website besides handling publicity for her.

It is not known whether Rohan will come back in Freida’s life, if she fails to become an “Ash” or the sexy siren “Bipasha”, but this is a classic example of ditching human emotions in search of materialistic gains.