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The news had nothing exceptional about it . But the central theme was worth mulling over.
Slap aka thamacha. The ultimate weapon that the Indian heroine uses against the lascivious villain when he tries to unleash a hamla on her sanctity.
The bolly flicks of the 60s featured slap as the weapon ultima. Most tense scenes culminated with a tight slap , from hero to heroineee, heroinee to villain, saasumaa to bahu or from villain dad to heroine daughter.
All of them took turns and slapped each other on the screens lavishly hither and tither while the audience watched them with bated breath followed by thunderous applause.
Of course the then villains althhough insane under the effect of daru had a huge sense of self respect and often came to conscience within one or two slaps from mala sinha or nutan. and then they would leave the place for the 'heroinee' to exhibit the lacrymation capabilities to the audience.

However as bolly stepped into the late 70 s and 80s. more dreaded villains emerged, shameless scums, who were capable of insanity without daru.
While yester year heroines who had been on the receiving side happily donned the older , mature saasu maa, and maa roles and started delivering a volley of slaps to the new comers irrespective of gender the madhuris and jayapradhas employed a very tactical shift in their approach.
dhakkas (pushing), laafa, chaakus and jhadoos (brooms) came in to assist slaps.
slowly they gained prominence and slaps started fading into the oblivion.

However some noted actors like prem chopra, gulshan grover and prathapachandran(one time omnipresent rapist in mallu movies) did help in their own way to preserve this rarified bolly culture by trying it on the heoines intermittently to subjugate them.
(technical flaw here. Why is it that the villains use ghoonsa(punches) against the heroes but only slaps against the heroines, actually punches are more effective than slaps, and its not illegal to punch a lady... hmmm need to ponder on this stuff)
This is from my own personal experience when one of my friends used a ghoonsa on my face(cheeks) instead of a slap in a friendly brawl.I felt a heavy metal ball rolling from my left lobe to my right lobe and then into my lungs through my medulla oblangata (Thanks to my biology tutor). That was the only time i had preferred someone had slapped me.

But however lately a slap renaissance seems to be in vogue.Some movies like Munnabhai featured the desi laafa as a counter force to videshi martial arts. (Remember the scene in which Sanju baba introduces himself as laafa champion!!!!)

Its time up for the day. Iam left with a hoard of slapper stuff. Slap enthusiasts may watchout for another post

Jab tak rahega laafe mein dum
Tab take rahega jhandu balm.


adieu ...alvida....sayonara.