“Rifle”
That was what we used to call her. Rifle was a name someone gave her at College and it stuck. She was the most sexiest woman I have ever seen in my life. When I was studying in Siddhartha Engineering College Vijayawada, there used to be lot of construction activity going on there and she was one of the construction labourers. Me and many of my classmates used to watch her through our classroom window while a boring soil mechanics lecture droned on. It didn’t make a difference to us that her thighs were caked with cement dust and her hair was uncombed, she used to walk bare feet with her chest thrust out and used to look straight in our eye. She had more sex in her little finger than most women in their whole bodies. To us she was just sex personified. Our imagination of how she would look naked under her clothes drove us insane. Agreed that our ages were such that even a telephone pole wrapped in a saree would look sexual, but there really was something truly amazingly electrifyingly sexual about Rifle. It’s not that there were no other women on the campus. There were plenty both in the engineering and the medical college but Rifle was Rifle.
I always felt there is a fundamental difference between beauty and sexuality. Beauty pleases your senses whereas sexuality controls your senses, or even more correctly makes your senses go berserk. Your rational thinking gets lost and the animal instinct takes over. Rifle used to draw out the animal in all of us. She in her non-caring demeanour and in the way she used to clothe and behave epitomized the word ‘sex’. We all used to sit in the nights with textbooks on our laps and have endless discussions on the shapes and sizes of Rifles various attributes. It took us the tremendous strength of our combined will of all our upbringing, education, social programming, morality, religious strictures and fear of law which just about managed to control us from pouncing upon her.
If ever in my life I respected God, it was for creating Rifle.
Now why was she so sexual compared to the crystal clean girls who used to come in swanky dresses, their lips red with lipstick? I think it’s because no man wants to taste lipstick when he kisses a girl.
I strongly feel that sexuality works more when it is ultra real rather than when it is enhanced by cosmetics. Aesthetics kind of undermine the rawness of sex. For example I think the difference between an erotic film and a porn film is the backlight. If it’s back-lit it’s erotic and if it’s front-lit it’s porn. In both cases the content is the same.
All said and done, for me Rifle was the ultimate epitome of what God really intended a woman to be like, before the cosmetic industry, the costume designers, the make-up people and the jewelry merchants came in and started backlighting that wonderful species called women.
P.S:
- Incidentally Rifle never knew that she used to be referred as ‘RIFLE’.
- She was completely unaware of the volcanic emotions she aroused in the hearts and loins of a thousand guys on the Campus.
- She never knew how many floodgates of jealousy she opened when she married a guy who used to run a Paan-Shop opposite our college gate.
- Some day I will surely make a film based on the concept of “The woman as a sexual being” and I want to call it “RIFLE” as a tribute to her.
Tagged as beauty, college, god, rifle, sexuality, siddhartha engineering college, vijaywada + Categorized as My Life
i guess, each one of us have our own ‘rifle’……that one woman, who stirs your mind to challenge all existing morals…
When I first read the title “Rifle” I thought RGV is planning a remake of “NIKITA” but after reading the whole text I realized how foolish I was.
the agenda
I have written a couple of scripts and tried getting producers/financiers for the same but in-vain. So I decided to write a no-budget movie about a stubborn teenager. I have almost completed the script and planning to shoot in a handycam(fullHD). Will the quality be good enough if blownup for big screen. Pls advice —-redandblue@rediffmail.com
Awesome Post !
Nice one. I like your boldness RGV. Please make this movie. :)
the only indian director who has his own style of making films… keep making films you believe in
neeko namaskaram swamiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
In my past 10 yrs of riding this internet highway, I always considered people who left comments on articles (be it a news article or a you tube movie) as peiece of shit. I considered those people as someone who have nothing better to do life……And accidentally I stumbled upon your blog yesterday and MAN you blew me away and I had to register to comment on how brilliant your writings are……..’RIFLE” reminds me of my engineering days where I played sick and stayed back in the hostel to lure the construction women working on site with my charm……….I failed though…….
Cheers
Hahaha Ramu sir…..u just gave amazing words about SEX and BEAUTY…As a director you will rock on screen but as a person you will be always unique.
I hope i will become your fav assistant…
RIFLE fired thousands of hearts…………..
Sir,,It was one of the most stimulating piece of writing i have come across in long time,,,,,,my imagination just ran wild on your narration of the story,,,just thinking about RIFLE,,,i got shot[:)]
You might have seen more beautiful girls than rifle but you think she is the most beautiful women because of one of the following reasons
1. You couldn’t go close to the “rifle” and talk to girl as you can do with the other girls. Even i also felt like you about a girl but i was wrong, when i was studying engineering but not the same rifle no surprise ..
2. Watching the rifle is the only motivating activity in the boring / sleepy class
3. May be it’s because of the first impression on the girl or your age as you said.
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It was really nice time for you I hope…. because most beautiful things can not be seen in exist we can only feel them in our heart….
I like ur guts for writing this story