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Roadside romeos

Eve-teasing is a social evil: this we all agree upon. Be it your friend, girlfriend, cousin or your sister, if you hear that someone decided to wolf-whistle when they went to a bus-stop or if someone sang songs and followed them from their college to someplace else, you want to go and smack them -- at least your blood begins to boil at the very thought of this happening. The question, though, is that how and why do we see this? What makes a young man think that by wolf-whistling of constantly harrassing/following a girl, he can woo her over? Why do unemployed idiots smoking cigarettes at a bus-stop think that staring at a girl will finally make her smile and appear smitten by his charms? I think a big part of the blame should go to Hindi movies, and especially those which you consider "classic" just because they happened to be made during the '70s or '80s. In almost every one of these, the hero constantly shows up at all places and keeps following the girl around, u