Bongop’o'ndit raises an interesting question: why is drinking still looked down upon in India?
Japan has its sake, Russia has vodka and most countries in the world drink wine or variants and have traditional toasts etc for most social occasions. Not in India. Even when you try to buy alcohol legitimately, you need to talk to this person behind heavy metal bars, making you feel as if you are indulging in the worst kind of sin. Moreover, even if men can drink, the consumption of alcohol by women is highly frowned on (it is supposedly contrary to the sati-savitri image of Indian women)! While Hindi films are not the exact mirrors of society, they do depict this twisted morality – the villain and vamps drink unabashedly, hero does so only in response to unrequited love or rebelling against society and at best the drunk is a comic caricature
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