Male nudity Evolving Trend Since 1990’s in India
Nudity and the big ‘O’ – obscenity – go hand in hand in India. A new ‘nude’ spanking controversy follows the trail ‘outrage’ traced by the paintings of MF Husain and the announcement of Milind Soman. In a poster for an upcoming film, actor Aamir Khan is on a railway against a golden sky, wearing only strategically placed radio. Khan is angry – but not the only one. Many viewers are responding angrily to the poster presentation obscenity cases – even suggesting the intent to promote crime – against Khan and the filmmakers.
Male nudity has been a trend in evolution since the 1990:
But male body is (almost) naked Khan so shocking? Media studies scholar Shohini Ghosh says no. “Male nudity has been a trend in evolution since the 1990 Sanjay Dutt started doing upper torso look great. Rumbled with Salman Khan This shirt comes in which has become its USP.” However, the sex appeal associated with the Indian male body feels tantalizingly again.
Writer and advertising authority says Santosh Desai naked men always decorated the landscape – but were never sexy. “Men hung over the bare chest, often using striped underwear They were mildly unpleasant – Erotic .. Never Even heroes, except Dharmendra, their bodies kept secret,” says Desai. “It is only in recent years, with the nerve to John Abraham in ‘Dostana’ or towel-dropping act of Ranbir Kapoor in ‘Saawaraiya’, we see some erotic sensibility adhering to the male body.”
Milind Soman feels supermodel:
This sensitivity is evolving, Milind Soman feels supermodel, whose ad 1995, Soman and Madhu Sapre with a slick embrace, wearing only sneakers and a snake-stoic look, created quite a stir. Soman reminds reactions ranging from ‘awesome! “a ‘obscene’ and 14 years of legal cases, including a complaint under the Law for the Protection of Wildlife. now acquitted, Soman says,” Things are more relaxed today. There is more acceptance, not only nudity, but tattoos, piercing, body art, the male body as an expressive form”.