“Savita Bhabhi” – Comic or something else?
INDIA has Savita Bhabhi, the country’s leading MILF.
Bhabhi means sister-in-law, or brother’s wife”, and the comic strip features the newly married cartoon porn star with buxom breasts and a fierce libido shagging gentlemen callers, priapic teenage boys and handymen.
Savita Bhabhi is what happens when self-publishing enables male cartoonists raised on Archie comics and 1950s comedy publish their fantasies. And there is plenty of humour. Episode 1 is called The Bra Salesman.
Enthusaists of Norman Saunders S&M Bazooka Porn And Battle Cards will enjoy India’s first Internet porn star, who while her salary man husband is out at work all day seduces, well, anyone and everyone.
As Anorak wrote on British sex before the watershed:
Sex comedies existed in Britain for two reasons. First, censorship laws meant that continental style porn couldn’t be shown. And secondly, although the sex content was negligible, the fact that it existed at all meant that it had to be covered up with nervous laughter.
Pornography is illegal in India. And Savita’s creators seek to plug the hole in the market. But porn is all in the mind. And if naked picures turn a reader on, then surely it is porn. Its might even be a thought crime.
One cartoonist, known as Deshmukh, explains:
“We get 60 million unique visitors every month. The average time a visitor spends on our site is more than 10 minutes. Almost 70 percent of our traffic is from India, while the rest is from the U.S., U.K. and more than 80 other countries.”
Dr. Prakash Kothari, an eminent Bombay sexologist, analyses:
“Most men are quite intimate with and take advice from their bhabhi. It’s someone who’s there to advise you, to help you, to make fun of you, to crack jokes, whom you can ask any intimate questions.”
And sex?
“It’s not welcome, it’s not permitted, it’s not accepted by society. Having advice from your own bhabhi is acceptable, but having sex with her is not.”
And in taboo lies titillation.
Says the cartoonist, based in the US:
“One of the reasons for creating SB was to also portray that Indian women have sexual desires too. India is a country which is still sexually repressed and I feel that for it to break the shackles, it is the women of India who are going to have to come out first. We are already seeing that in a way, and hopefully SB will do her bit to help in this revolution.”
And come that revolution, Bhabi will be consigned to the dustbin of history, a curio of past erotica…
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Thanks to an anonymous group of computer geeks, India’s first international Internet porn star is fast becoming this conservative country’s answer to Wonder Woman — and Monica Lewinsky.
But here’s the trick: The steamy web seductress is a cartoon.
Turning the tables on Bollywood’s demure heroines — who’ve only recently started agreeing to lip-to-lip kisses on screen — “Savita Bhabhi” (or sister-in-law Savita) is a buxom, recently married housewife who knows what she wants and how to get it.
Bored with her workaholic husband, she seduces door-to-door salesmen, neighborhood cricket players, even a not-so-subtle stand-in for the gray-bearded Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan — a move that earned her some flak from Indian entertainment channels.
Though pornography is illegal in India, Savita Bhabhi’s sexual misadventures, published on savitabhabhi.com with scripts based on fantasies submitted by fans, have attracted a huge following, according to one of the strip’s anonymous creators, who goes by the screen name Deshmukh.
“We get 60 million unique visitors every month. The average time a visitor spends on our site is more than 10 minutes,” the site administrator told GlobalPost by email. “Almost
70 percent of our traffic is from India, while the rest is from the U.S., U.K. and more than 80 other countries.” (Read more about my interview with this secret creator of Savita Bhabhi, here).
Part of the reason for its success is its diversity. With the help of volunteers — recent posts on the Savita Bhabhi fan site read “Urgent! Calling all script writers!” and “We need translators! Are you up for it?” — Savita’s creators publish the strip in 10 different Indian languages, along with English.
By all appearances, it’s a tough job. In another recent fan post, a user named Srinkar pleads, “If possible, develop your Bengali language up to date, as most of us are eagerly waiting to take the maximum pleasure through the mother tongue.” Indeed.
But the secret to Savita’s popularity isn’t so much her Pamela Anderson proportions as her roots in Indian culture. Complaining about a long digression featured in one episode, a user called Sex Drive explains, “The reason SB is so popular is because people fantasize about a sari clad bhabhi being so raunchy and sexually liberated. You take her out of the equation and the fantasy just ends there.”
Dr. Prakash Kothari, an eminent Bombay sexologist, explains. “Bhabhi means sister-in-law, or brother’s wife. Most men are quite intimate with and take advice from their bhabhi. It’s someone who’s there to advise you, to help you, to make fun of you, to crack jokes, whom you can ask any intimate questions.”
And an object of sexual fantasy? In Indian culture, sex with your bhabhi isn’t taboo on the order of Oedipus, the doc says, but it isn’t kosher, either. “It’s not welcome, it’s not permitted, it’s not accepted by society. Having advice from your own bhabhi is acceptable, but having sex with her is not.”
“[A] bhabhi is the Indian version of a MILF,” explained Deshmukh, who came up with the idea for the comic while boozing it up with fellow Indian exiles in the U.S. “Though in literal terms it means your “brother’s wife” — that is not the meaning here. For an Indian youngster his first fantasy is normally the newly married hot woman in the neighborhood who is referred to as a hot Bhabhi. Hence it seemed only natural that our hot heroine whom the entire neighborhood lusts after be called Savita Bhabhi.”
There’s obviously a spoof factor here. But the slightly zany aspects of an impossibly curvaceous middle-class housewife slipping out of her sari for, say, a “special massage” from her servant boy doesn’t account for Savita Bhabhi’s massive following.
That lies in the cleverness of the comic’s creators, who have tapped into current anxieties about the social changes brought about by modernity as well as nostalgia for past forms of printed entertainment.
“One of the reasons for creating SB was to also portray that Indian women have sexual desires too,” Deshmukh said. “India is a country which is still sexually repressed and I feel that for it to break the shackles, it is the women of India who are going to have to come out first. We are already seeing that in a way, and hopefully SB will do her bit to help in this revolution.”
That repression — and the temptation to escape it — is a big part of the comic’s appeal, explains sociologist Sanjay Srivastava, the author of “Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India.” “It plays upon a well-established male anxiety and desire — wanting and being scared of the modern woman,” he said. “It’s good to have a modern woman as a girlfriend, but [as the serial cuckolding of Savi's husband illustrates] it’s dangerous to have her as a wife.”
At the same time, though, Savita Bhabhi offers a bit of humor for the 30-something generation who grew up with the ubiquitous Amar Chitra Katha comics depicting tales from Hindu religious mythology. “[It] also borrows from that artwork,” says Srivastava. “So for some people some of the pleasure is that it’s a kind of satire of those religious comic books.”
Nevertheless, not every bastion of tradition is unassailable, according to some fans.
“I am not able to log on to the website as it is banned in UAE,” writes Bhushan Ar. “I tried with proxy but no use … kindly help guys, I am the newest fan of bhabhi.”
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An interview with secret creator of Savita Bhabhi
After a bit of trolling through the fan pages, I managed to track down “Deshmukh,” one of the creators, and a site administrator, of Savita Bhabhi, India’s first porn sensation.
Here’s a peek inside my interview notes:
What inspired you guys to start an online pornographic comic?
It just came out of the blue. We were a group of friends sitting together on a weekend having a few drinks and talking. As usual with a bunch of drunken young men, the topic shifted to women and sex. One of our non-Indian friends remarked that while Indian women were considered among the most sensuous in the world, we did not have a single really hot Indian porn star. That stirred up our discussion and we decided the next best thing to a real woman would be a toon porn star. One of my friends is an amateur artist and he came up with the first draft of SB. Initially there was a tossup between SB being a young Gujarati woman or a South Indian aunty. We went ahead and posted some threads on a forum asking people which they prefer. Savita as a young newly married woman won.
Why did you choose a “bhabhi” as your heroine?
Bhabhi is the Indian version of a MILF. Though in literal terms it means your “brother’s wife” — that is not the meaning here. For an Indian youngster his first fantasy is normally the newly married hot woman in the neighborhood who is referred to as a hot Bhabhi. Hence it seemed only natural that our hot heroine whom the entire neighborhood lusts after be called Savita Bhabhi.
How many hits or page views do you get in a month?
We get 60 million unique visitors every month. The average time a visitor spends on our site is more than 10 minutes.
What is the general profile of your fans? (i.e. what countries, age groups, etc)
Almost 70% of our traffic is from India, while the rest is from the U.S., U.K. and more than 80 other countries. SB has fans in almost all countries in the world and we’ve actually had translations sent to us in Mandarin and French among other languages. We had done a poll a few months ago, which showed 30% of our viewership as being women.
What are some of the best signs that Savita is a hit? (e.g. Facebook groups in foreign countries, etc.)
SB has been covered in the press in Asia, Europe, and North America. A search for SB in Google results in 312,000 pages of which 99% have not been created by us. I have heard of social networking groups on Facebook, Orkut and other sites regarding SB.
It’s interesting to me that Savita is a sexually mature woman who (mostly) takes control of the situations to please herself, rather than being exclusively the object of male desires. Was that a conscious decision on the part of her creators?
Yes, it sure was. One of the reasons for creating SB was to also portray that Indian women have sexual desires too. India is a country which is still sexually repressed and I feel that for it to break the shackles, it is the women of India who are going to have to come out first. We are already seeing that in a way, and hopefully SB will do her bit to help in this revolution.
Why a comic, rather than some other medium?
For one, it is a unique medium in the context of Indian porn. We’ve had MMS’s, videos, stories, etc, but no porn comics. Also a comic allows us to explore the fantasy in a much more vivid way than any other medium.
What are your main influences for plots? — e.g. I see “building friends” and a Bachchan parody…
All SB plots are based on real life fantasies of our authors and fans. They are all something that a normal full blooded Indian male or female would be fantasizing about on their commute to work or a lazy evening at home. We get tons of email from fans detailing their fantasies and asking us if their fantasies can be converted into an SB toon. We try to keep all our plots fairly believable (for someone with a vivid imagination of course) and connected to everyday occurrences which could just lead into a sexual adventure!
I noticed that there are various links to other pornography sites/downloads etc on the site. Do you guys make money off Savita Bhabhi in any way?
Right now we don’t make any money on SB, but we’re planning to introduce some advertsing on it. Not sure which links are you talking about? If they are links on the fanclub you are talking about, then those are just links/downloads posted by SB fans. All free stuff.
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India’s hottest online cartoon porn star, who gets 2 lakh visitors every day, says she’ll star in an animation film and speak in French and Spanish soon
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Cups of joy: A page from Bra Salesman, from the adventures of Savita Bhabhi |
Savita Bhabhi is India’s hottest cartoon porn star. Her sexual adventures at shopping arcades, parties, workplace or doctors’ chambers are already part of online and offline folklore.
Her stories appear in English and 10 Indian languages. Created by a few friends in India and believed to be run from New Zealand because of heat from the Indian security agencies, this is Bhabhi’s exclusive interview to Shashank Shekhar.
The Interview
So, when do we meet you?
I will be an animated film soon, the only hitch is finding talent willing to work on such a project.
Who created you, where is he based?
Someone called Deshmukh and he’s not based in India. I cannot share the exact location as he values his privacy. There are three core members in the SB team along with a lot of volunteers.
DO YOU HAVE PLANS FOR NEW EDITIONS?
We have requests for a Spanish and a French version, which we will be coming out with soon.
Can we hope to meet you in an animation or real-life film anytime soon?
Yes, there are plans to come out with an animated version of Savita Bhabhi. The only issue is finding the right talent willing to work on such a project. I am looking for animators to come forward and bring my adventures “to life”.
Your creators are apparently not in India. Who is your creator and where is he based? How big is the Savita Bhabhi team?
My creator is Deshmukh. It is true that he is located out of India, but I cannot share the exact location as he values his privacy. There are three core members in the SB team along with a lot of volunteers.
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A cartoon strip from Bhabhi’s adventures |
How many foreigners are involved in creating you? From your Bengali dialect, for instance, it is evident that Bangladeshi translators are involved.
Plenty. We’ve actually got people from places like Spain and South Africa in our team! We have requests for a Spanish and French version of Savita Bhabhi which we will be coming out with soon.
Indian security agencies are trying to ban you.
I believe that the cyber branch has much more important work on their plate rather than waste time on a cartoon site! I’m sure they would rather spend their time tracking down the criminals, fraudsters and terrorists who misuse the Net than run after a slightly promiscuous bhabhi.
You don’t seem to bother whether children too are ogling at you. There is not even a customary age-consent form to access your site. Isn’t it also your responsibility to place your adventures out of reach of minors?
I do have a strong social responsibility and keeping children out of the site is one of them. However, rather than just have a ‘customary’ warning page which really does not serve any purpose, we have put up a link to a website from where parents can get information about blocking not only Savita Bhabhi, but any website that they might find objectionable. The link is: http://www.rtalabel.org/parents.php.
Which part of India you do belong to?
I like to think of myself as a complete Indian woman, not necessarily from one part of India.
When was your first sexual encounter?
My first sexual encounter was with my husband. I was not very aware of sexuality before marriage and it is only after that I opened up.
Do you prefer Indian men to foreigners?
Well, till now I have only been with Indian men, so I do not have a point of reference to compare. I think Indian men have a unique flavour. The only problem is that they need to learn more about sexuality and how to satisfy their women.
What if your husband discovers your promiscuity?
Only time will tell.
Favourite position?
Are you going to print stuff like this!
Which male Bollywood star do you fancy?
I would like to take the name of some of the current stars, but the truth is that the one Bollywood actor who could really turn me on is the eternal Amitabh Bachchan.
Among Bollywood actresses, who do you think is most sexually expressive, uninhibited?
I feel Bipasha Basu has a sexuality that cannot be matched by anyone in the industry right now.
Will there be a Holi special edition?
No plans for that as of now.
How many people visit your website? Which are the most popular languages they read your adventures in?
2,00,000 people visit the website daily. They mostly read the stories in English and Hindi.
What message do you have for Indian women, who are still largely considered sexual objects?
I would tell them to explore their sexuality and stand up for their rights. They need to talk to their partners and teach them how to satisfy them sexually.
Do you ever foresee a time when your adventures could be created entirely in India as legitimate adult entertainment?
We can always hope for that. I feel today’s India is liberated enough (shown by the success of SB) to appreciate legal adult entertainment and hopefully sometime soon laws in India will come in line with popular consensus. Almost all developed countries have legitimised adult entertainment. Rather than have MMS scandals of real people floating on the Internet, it makes better sense to legalise it and have it run on the right side of the law.
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It’s been one year since Savita Bhabhi – the sultry housewife who stars in a pornographic comic strip on the Internet – was born, but the creators remain incognito in a sign of the shame and legal stigma about sex in India. The website, managed by an obviously fictitious company called the Indian Porn Empire, is being dubbed India’s first online pornographic comic book. It revels in sexcapades of a traditional Indian housewife. Her encounters embrace a range of characters, not least door-to-door salesmen, local cricketers and even a cousin visiting from the United States.
On Saturday, there were reports that the information and technology ministry may pull the plug on the website but its creators still remained silent. Savita Bhabhi’s fan club is already legendary, running into several pages and its progress eagerly tracked by sections of the foreign press. But the website’s ‘administrators’ appear reluctant to step out of the shadows and continue to use pseudonyms – Deshmukh, Dextar, Mad. Even the writers and illustrators provide no more than screen names like badman2k2in and gujju.man.
Patricia Oberoi, a sociologist with the Centre for Studies in Developing Societies, Delhi, says this secrecy “signifies that India wants to be truly globalised, even in this aspect. But the only reason America’s Lary Flynt (so-called porn king) could be out in the open and these guys cannot is because porn is illegal in India. If an artist like MF Husain has five cases on his head, these guys know what moral police could do to them.”
But Oberoi says: “To me, this is as if India, in spite of its coyness, has come of age – a woman initiates the action here, the porn is not crude but on the verge of sophistication, it’s being translated into regional languages, which, till now had very rustic porn. I would say India has got its desi Debonnaire.”
In an indicator of its undoubted success, the anonymous creators of the virtual porn strip now plan to expand. The website is currently asking for translators and script writers in other Indian languages as well.
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A pornographic online comic strip is making waves throughout India. Savita Bhabhi is luring tens of thousands of Internet viewers, which recounts the adventures of a frustrated housewife ‘Savita Bhabhi’ as she attempts to cope with the boredom of the long days while her husband at the office.
The sultry, flat-stomached Savita can be seen seducing door-to-door salesmen, local cricketers and even a cousin visiting from the United States in the cartoon strips.
Every day a new colour cartoon is posted on the website every day, and each adventure lasts around a month, with the more explicit scenes usually held until the end.
The hot site, which appears in English and several Indian languages, started in March and already has 30,000 registered users.
The writers and illustrators give only their screen names on the site, and the Indian Porn Empire, which is listed as the copyright holder, has failed to return calls from local journalists.
The strips, which are humorous, ironic, and by the standards of Western pornography fairly tame, appear to have hit a nerve with young middle-class Indians becoming more open about sexuality.
“I do think that India was waiting for some mature and contemporary pornography,” the Independent quoted sociologist Patricia Oberoi, as saying.
“And this is certainly Indian. A number of the themes are no doubt universal but the settings are very Indian,” Oberoi added.
Savita Bhabhi has even been described as harking back to the sensual and playful spirit of the Kama Sutra, the 2,000-year-old Indian sex manual.
In-depth History
COMICS HAVE A WAY of bypassing our critical and moral register and going right to the id. They have a way of getting into, and then staying in, the deepest recesses of the psyche. This is apparent from our frenzied interest in Savita Bhabi, India’s first animated Internet porn star. Created by the appropriately underground Deshmukh, Dexstar and Mad (whoever they may be, they are not telling — we did ask), Savita Bhabhi is growing to be a phenomenally popular pornographic comic strip. It has grown solely by word of mouth to 3911 registered users in little over a month since its inception. The lead character has been drawn with every Kserial bahu trapping firmly in place: the dull gleam of a mangalsutra, sindoor forming a bright contrast to long dark hair parted chastely down the middle.
Right from the start, you can see the creators of Savita Bhabhi are a clever lot. The format is a daily serialisation based on a monthly theme. So far we have seen the tale of the “Travelling Bra Salesman”; this month the theme is “cricket” and the month of June has been earmarked for “visiting cousins”. The strips are posted in English with the promise of being available in six regional languages — Hindi, Telugu and Gujarati amongst others. Pornography is so readily available that this serialised version is a good idea; there is an economy of anticipation. We forget that Dickens never wrote a novel that was published in full, at least initially.
Right away, part of Savita Bhabhi’s appeal lies in its technicolour combination of debauchery and irony. And then there is the bhabhi — a particularly fetishised woman in the Indian male psyche. Patricia Uberoi, a sociologist and author of Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, sounds amused when asked how an anthropologist would view the appeal of the bhabhi. “The brother-in-law and bhabhi in India have what anthropologists call a ‘joking relationship’. He is traditionally her confidante, her ally; the cultural license in this sort of relationship is almost institutionalised. This sort of layered response to a bhabhi just does not exist in the west.” So Savita Bhabhi really is an Indian product.
Uberoi cites the 90’s smash hit Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, a family film that sanitised a range of erotic relationships in popular culture. The film carried a whole erotic register just below its surface: the bhayya-bhabhi relationship was usefully immortalised in songs and purple sarees. Ronjon Bandhopadhyay, a prominent Kolkata-based journalist says, “Yes, of course, there are so many instances of this in literary history. Tagore had a relationship with his sister-in-law, Kadambari Devi, who committed suicide when he got married. She was his muse.”
The bhabhi angle is a clever one. It combines an astute reading of the Indian sensibility with the ability to poke it in the eye. Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee is writing a book tentatively titled Libido, that will include factofiction tales of sexuality in India. He says, “Writing good pornography, or erotica, needs rigour and an understanding of humanity. You are an anthropologist looking at socio-psychology.” And Indians have a head start at being creative here since, Banerjee says, “You have to be repressed to write good pornography. For me, I was fascinated when I saw these prostitutes in Amsterdam, coming as I did from the usual anal middle class and its protected environment where sexy was Ms Peters, the geography teacher.”
PERHAPS BECAUSE the straitjacketed sexual environment in which literary erotica is hatched is so oppressive, it usually ventures into the truly outré and kinky sado-masochistic domain. Savita Bhabhi brings new stories for a new society. Bollywood and cricket dominating every part of cultural commentary has left little room for other sub-cultures. However, Banerjee sees things changing with the growth of a mass blogging culture.
The remarkable thing about Savita Bhabhi is its sense of fun. It is dripping in irony, poking fun at our most cherished visual memories. Lawrence Liang, a researcher at the Alternative Law Forum and a new media expert says, “It reminds me of the highly erotically charged Amar Chitra Katha artwork, with its delicate-looking, scantily clad apsaras.” Deskmukh’s bhabhi looks like something between a particularly nubile Amar Chitra Katha sylph and Lara Croft, possessed of a washboard abdomen and suspiciously large, appropriately heaving bosom.
Altaf Tyrewala, author of No God in Sight asks, “Have you seen Tashan or Race? Their themes sound fairly underground. And that is the problem: the mainstream in India has become so ludicrous and bizarre, cretins with subcultural aspirations have fewer boats to rock.” He sees the comic strip being stuck on an ironic track. “How far the joke can be stretched is something to be seen.”
The message boards on the website are rhapsodic in their unanimous approval of this venture by Messrs Deshmukh, Dexstar, and Mad. (Deshmukh writes the scripts while Dexstar and Mad do the artwork and design). One is curious about the identities of this suspiciously anglicised sounding group. From the message boards we glean that the animators are happy to read unsolicited scripts written by fans but that they have to be in English as they don’t understand Hindi. Given that the context within which they are trying to operate is making it hip to be Hindi, this is curious. On the one hand, their work seems meant for mass consumption by people who read bhasha erotica; on the other, it makes fun of the stereotypes those brigades enjoy.
Who are these people; should we be curious? “No”, says Tyrewala, ”In the unlikely event that SB unfolds into a profound commentary on the sexual consumerism of a post-colonial nation, I want the people behind Savita Bhabhi to guard their identities with their lives; it’ll just make a lot of business sense.”
Somewhere along the global narrative of pornographic culture a new plot is being charted. Savita Bhabhi does not mark “the coming of age of Indian pornography” but rather, a new irreverence in Indian popular culture. From our collective repression has emerged a work that aims to titillate lightly, while amusing vastly. Since when did sex become funny? Since 28th March 2008, when a precocious comic strip went live in cyberspace.
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GreatBong: A new menace is here, an insidious agent of malignancy that creeps silently into your bedrooms (and yes even offices when the boss is not around). Assuming the form of electron streams, it activates pixels on your computer screen with certain poisonous RGB values which, before you know, sap you of your morals, your humanity and also more than a bit of your energy.
As articulated beautifully by an outraged Netizen, a person who suggests the CBI to step in to arrest the content creators of the site.
In my opinion this site is more dangerous than a normal adult site since it targets young Indian audience and degrades women.
I agree. Most normal adult sites do not target younger audiences and depict women as fully-rounded individuals with feelings as opposed to just a composition of attractive body parts.
There appears to be some sort of mystery regarding the hidden identity of the two guys who invented Savita Bhabhi and her website, and suspicious speculation regarding whether or not these guys are from India. It seems like the curiosity surrounding this suggests that for most people a joke cannot stand without clarity about the ethnicity of the comedians. If they are white guys then it may mean that a potentially self-reflexive parody of Saas-Bahu middle class morality combined with fresh wank material- becomes contaminated suddenly by the gaze of two white cyber geeks- for the sensitive patriotic wanker its like the moment when you realize that sexkitten69 is really an old pedophile named Edgar. And the flag goes suddenly to half mast at the thought of yet another diabolical act of cultural appropriation- which invariably brings out the “older brother syndrome” in even the most testosterone poisoned of patriots-
(she may be a toon but she’s still our Bhabhi and only we get to fantacize about her cup size you bloody Caucasian hemorrhoid)
Here’s a link to an article on it with Tehelka,
Savita Bhabhi is growing to be a phenomenally popular pornographic comic strip. It has grown solely by word of mouth to 3911 registered users in little over a month since its inception. The lead character has been drawn with every Kserial bahu trapping firmly in place: the dull gleam of a mangalsutra, sindoor forming a bright contrast to long dark hair parted chastely down the middle.
The bhabhi angle is a clever one. It combines an astute reading of the Indian sensibility with the ability to poke it in the eye. Graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee is writing a book tentatively titled Libido, that will include factofiction tales of sexuality in India. He says, “Writing good pornography, or erotica, needs rigour and an understanding of humanity. You are an anthropologist looking at socio-psychology.” And Indians have a head start at being creative here since, Banerjee says, “You have to be repressed to write good pornography. For me, I was fascinated when I saw these prostitutes in Amsterdam, coming as I did from the usual anal middle class and its protected environment where sexy was Ms Peters, the geography teacher.”
The message boards on the website are rhapsodic in their unanimous approval of this venture by Messrs Deshmukh, Dexstar, and Mad. (Deshmukh writes the scripts while Dexstar and Mad do the artwork and design). One is curious about the identities of this suspiciously anglicised sounding group. From the message boards we glean that the animators are happy to read unsolicited scripts written by fans but that they have to be in English as they don’t understand Hindi. Given that the context within which they are trying to operate is making it hip to be Hindi, this is curious. On the one hand, their work seems meant for mass consumption by people who read bhasha erotica; on the other, it makes fun of the stereotypes those brigades enjoy.
On the subject of repression- Sarnath makes an interesting point- reminds me of a certain friend who used to frenetically draw deranged pornographic pictures as a kid to cope with the monotony of small town living and the occasional erotic encounter with the bearded version of Mrs. Robinson or the fat girl next door. And I think the whole anthropological side of it is definitely there too- if you want to get an insight into another culture- watch their porn first- if Savita Bhabhi gives you a sense of where incest prohibition in a large extended families creates a country full of men who desperately want to gouge their eyes out or screw their cousin sisters (perhaps the later before the former) then Japanese Hentai gives you a sense that rape is pretty much the way romance is imagined, after the chocolate and roses have been put aside- from various accounts through the testosterone grape-vine- Japanese women feel that they are required to scream throughout the experience and cry if possible. charming.
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More Details about SavitaBhabhi
There are no dearth of porn sites on the worldwide web. And in India, content with desi flavours are the most sought-after in the cyber space with lots of sites sprouting up with each passing day. But when it comes to toon porn stuff, there are hardly any sites out there to quench the thirst of the desi porn lovers.
Now there’s a website, which serializes the sexcapades of a fictitious cartoon character called Savita bhabhi, which claims to be the first Indian toon character custom-made for India.
The website says it has been inspired by a “hot Indian Bhabhi”. Referring to bhabhi or elder sister-in-law, the site’s tagline says: “She is a regular Indian woman…Due to social issues (she is married) she was not willing to expose her true identity. So we decided to immortalize her in the form of Savita Bhabhi.”
The site is about the fantasies of this buxomly bhabhi whose sexual escapades are serialized daily in fantasy story formats. The stories are in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.
The toon stories are the typical sleazy kind of stuff once popular in the now-archaic print mode targeted (apparently) at the younger generation; the same old he-comes-and-she-seduces-in-a-jiffy tales.
The creators of the site, however, have not apparently used the latest tools in the creation of Savita bhabhi.
Indian porn sites are increasingly using bhabhi as an icon like other typical neighborhood lady, lady-driving instructor, tuition teacher et al.
Psychologists, however, take exception to the proliferation of such kinds of websites saying it will have an adverse impact on the Indian male psyche.
According to psychologist Mythili M Sharma, the portrayal of bhabhi in such a poor light can make a dent on the way a traditional Indian male considers family values.
“In the typical Indian traditional family bhabhi is almost on par with the mother. In the absence of mother, men in a traditional Indian family often reach out to their elder sisters-in-law whenever they have a problem. Websites like this one are not definitely going to be taken in good taste in India by an average Indian male psyche, because bhabhi hold a special place in the mind of an Indian male,” said Sharma.
She felt that such websites should be discouraged especially considering the fact that “we are living at a time when values are breaking down slowly.”
Family values can’t just be transgressed, Sharma added.
Cyber law experts also cried hoarse over the site citing legal as well as moral implications.
According to cyber law expert Na.Vijayashankar, known better as Naavi, the website’s content runs contrary to the existing cyber laws in India.
“I am certain that the activity of the website is illegal and anti-social. It violates Section 67 of ITA 2000 and several other provisions of IPC. In my opinion this site is more dangerous than a normal adult site since it targets young Indian audience and degrades women,” said Vijayashankar, director of Cyber Crime Complaints and Resolution Assistance Center and techno legal information security consultant presently based in Bangalore.
He said it is possible that the publishing of the story itself (if the URL is revealed) would be falling in the grey area of “promoting obscene content” and could invite objections.
Petition against the site
After CyberMedia News contacted Vijayashankar, he filed a petition with the police in Karnataka and also wrote to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) to find the owners and block the site.
In his e-mail to Gulshan Rai, director of CERT-IN, Vijayashankar said the content of the site is “aimed at corrupting the minds of young Indians in a manner worse than the worst pornographic sites.”
“The site needs to be blocked immediately besides action being taken on the owners. Perhaps the investigation to trace the owners should precede the blocking. However blocking cannot be postponed for long and hence urgent action is called for in starting an investigation,” the mail said.
Vijayashankar has also suggested a CBI enquiry to bring the owners of the Canada-registered website to book.
A recent issue of the Tehelka magazine named the creators of Savita bhabhi as Deshmukh, Dexstar and Mad, who are “appropriately underground.”
According to Alexa.com, the website has a traffic ranking of 3,361, with Indians constituting 89.5 per cent of the viewers, followed by those in the US.
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