Recently I watched a number of films on OTT Out of them, some were very different. Their plots were not ordinary, Here I would like to discuss them briefly. Firstly I liked them very much.

But before that, the film we watched long back in our College days, in the seventies. Society was not so open in those times. The social permissiveness shown in this Hollywood film that captured their societies in 1942 during the war, among adolescents was envied by us as young adults with silky thin moustaches and daily clean shaven looks, Beards among our clan were only for the intellectuals who wore round glasses and carried side bags, If you have not already guessed from the year already, yes, it was Summer of 42 staring a stunning Jeniffer O'Neal with a bunch of school going kids boys and girls in their teens. Nowadays these films have a generic name, Growing up stories, Well, we actually grew up watching these films. It was all told from a boy's point of view. I still vividly remember the ending. I felt as sad as the boy. In the final scene, Hermie, suddenly approaching manhood, is seen looking at Dorothy's old house and the ocean from a distance before he turns to join his friends. To bittersweet music, the adult Raucher sadly recounts that he never saw Dorothy again or learned what became of her. It remains a part of our lives. If you have watched the film and remembered it and for those who have not, I leave a link to the sory of the film. See if it makes you watch the film, again maybe,

Now all this came back to me when I watched the film Girls will be Girls, on OTT recently, It is the same story in today's India in a small hill town with a prestigious co-ed school but told from a girl's point of view, The girl is as interested and as naïve as those boys in the West ,80 years ago. The boy, a little older and with exposure to foreign lands and people, is not so naïve and always interested. He has also learned to manipulate people He is a little shrewd, I would say, nothing evil. And the other boys are really jelous and angry at their failure to win the maiden's attention and at her squealing about their pranks or misadventures as you choose to call them. Some girls are drawn to the so called bad boys with a sense of daring and like always, teachers caution the girls and punish the boys, as we would say. Parents, however, continue to poke their noses into everything from lengths of dresses to the very important BOARD EXAMS as always. Now in old age, I remember our times and smile. The boys and girls today have caught up with those of the '42 , maybe quite some time back. I never knew. Watch the film to know for yourself,

The others follow one by one,