The recent bollywood films dazzle ..its like moving to Firefox after using IE for years.
Hindi movie fans like me are easy to please.Some Latkas good Jhatkas lots of melodies and I'm sold.Plots don't matter,stories are immaterial.If I can forget a bad day for a 2 1/2 hrs of razzle dazzle. I want to buy a ticket.
Storylines have moved out of Gulshan Nanda novels , Reservoir Dogs to folk tales of Rajasthan. There is a lot of originality. Teen Deewaren,Black did give me a mometarily flasback of seeing a 70s Hollywood classic but even than it had a lot of original stuff. There were a lot of movies which have made Popcorn my staple diet.Paheli,Mangal Pandey,My wife's murder,Chocolate,Ramji Londonwale are a few.The list is increasing by day.
Bollywood has been an integral part of being an Indian.If you are an Indian in any corner of the world from Louisiana to Ludhiana you have a birthright to gossip about Karishma's domestic dispute. That's how I keep myself busy on a taxing 30 hr flight home.My neighbor's 3 yr old son cannot remember his parents name but he knows who Bunty & Bubli are .
Bollywood fans are as fanatic as a suicide bomber.Nothing will deter them from watching hindi movies even when they have to spend 1/2 hr to figure out why Shahrukh is wearing lipstic.But the metrosexual hero is appealing to lot of urban & rural fans.
When I see Jr & Sr Bachan dancing together in 'Kajra re'... 'm on my feet .Salman & Sushmita's gyrating gospel in the rain thrills me more than War of the Worlds....... ..beat David Dhawan to that Spielberg.
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