“Public harassment became a bona fide entertainment device in the nineties with every teen romance having at least one song where the girl was ‘eve teased’ in college corridors.” Govinda and Shah Rukh Khan were stalkers, one endearing, one scary, in Raja Babu and Darr respectively. Tere Naam (2003) “turned the obsessed lover into an object of sympathy for his one-sided passion and a kidnapping victim into an unwitting provocateur.” The tradition continues: in 2013, Shahid Kapoor chased an annoyed Ileana D’Cruz singing, “Khaali-peeli, khaali-peeli rokne ka nahi, tera peecha karoon toh tokne ka
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