India first became a republic on the 26th of January, 1950, and it was then that they got their first president, Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
But let's move on from that. We want to talk about daily life, the government, and mawwiage. Ahem, excuse me, mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us hewe, togetha, today-
Sorry about that. Anyways, we want to talk about daily life, the government, marriage, the things that happened (we call those events, yo) in the 50s in India, and, of course, pop culture, because who doesn't love that? *Raises hand.*
Marriage seems as if it was one of those stereotypical Middle-Ages royalty things where at a stupidly young age, everybody got married off to someone they didn't know and that was that.
What we see in Mr. and Mrs. 55 seems to show somewhat the same thing, though it ends happily with Anita (the chick) falling in love with Preetam (the dude). The aunt, Sita Devi, is a huge women's rights advocate focused on the divorce bill and obsessed with the idea that men are rats. (I was like, "lady, to some extent, that's . . .well, mostly true, but c'mon, benefit of the doubt") She goes about parading her hatred for men in a seemingly reversed version of the Three Stooges Woman Haters musical (which none of us enjoyed all that much - A Plumbing We Will Go is so much better).
Back to the 50s in India. Now obviously it lacked the basics of what we have now, like a time six and a half decades ago likely would. Cellphones, easily accessed transportation, proper cleaning gadgets, or, you know, just . . . gadgets in general. Vacuums weren't all that common. People mostly read, hung out, went to movies maybe. To the uneducated, (illiterate, as Auntie Sita would say) the 50s look pretty darn dull.
I'm afraid I'd have to agree with you there.
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