Saturday, October 13, 2007

Someone's laughing at Bollywood!!!!!


I was actually reading a book called "Laughter - the best medicine" when I came across this clever piece of writing. It seemed to me that I should blog abt this.I mean ,everyone's entitled to enjoyment.
A guy called David somebody(can't remember his name) wrote a book on his tour of India.The book is called"....."(can't remember that either).Anyways,the most captivating part of the whole book was abt his bus ride to some place during which he saw a bollywood movie and decided to comment on it.

WARNING:The delicate and devoted friends of bollywood,don't read this.If you do,you mite hate that David somebody for writing it and me for blogging abt it


I was actually on a government bus,travelling to my next place of visit.A Bollywood movie was playing near the front of the bus for entertainment. But I was nowhere near the front:I was sitting in the last row of seats.Even though I was at the last,the frequent suspensions in mid-air every few seconds due to the roads and the constant replaying of the same film sufficed.The plot of the story as far as I could make out was as follows:
The handsome boy and a pretty girl are very much in love.But the boys parents want him to marry a fat,ugly girl.So the handsome boy(the hero) runs away with the pretty girl(the heroine).But the ugly,fat girl and the boys parents catch up with them.Here they all break into a song around a tree.But as soon as the song is over,the chase is on again.Suddenly five or six hefty men appear from behind a bush that was nowhere in sight a few seconds ago.The hero fights all of them and defeats them single handedly.And the bush disappears again and they all start running and chasing.Suddenly again,some more men appear from behind the magically appearing bush.Once again they all break into a song.By this time,the ugly girl has tied the father around a tree and doused him with petrol.She asks the hero to stop running or she'd strike a match to the petrol.But the hero is busy fighting with the men who appear and disappear with the magical bush.By this time,the father has managed to release himself and overcome the ruffian guarding him by slamming a bucket onto his head.The father realises that the fat girl is bad and they all start chasing her.But she manages to run away and escape.The father seems to give his blessings to the couple.The ugly girl is shown on the horizon,shouting out what is undoubtedly a vow of revenge.
The ugly girl stumbles across a hut in a desert.She sees that a man lives there all alone.He tries to seduce her,but she is not interested.At this point she notices that he seems to be developing an atom bomb.Suddenly she is interested and she starts to plot revenge with that man.After this the story got a bit hard to follow.As far as I could make out, the ugly girls plan for revenge failed and the bomb blew up,killing the ugly girl and her lover.The young couple lived happily ever after.
Now that's what I call quality entertainment.


If I had my way,this David guy would have got the Nobel Prize for Literature this year.If this isn't enjoyable,then what is?

4 comments:

Ken :) said...

lol..
but hey!! are not all indian films all the same..
the same formula: hero heroine.. villi(an) etc etc.. sigh!!

Ken :) said...

and change ur layout and settings yaar!! and the time zone.. set it to IST

Karthikeyan.M.S said...

all indian films could in essence be boiled down to such a thing .. lol .. (except a very few) ..

btw i saw this movie called 'contract' ..

the story :

three people walk in forest
two more people join
five people walk in forest
the movie ends :|

now this is what i called quality dowser .. !!

Maverick said...

You're telling me!!!!

But hey!if most of the indian films weren't crap,bollywood wouldn't be the biggest movie industry in the world(not in terms of quality but in terms of quantity).I mean,how long will it take to churn out movies based on the same formula of hero,heroines and villian?

But still, long live bollywood for putting Amitabh,hrithik,shah rukh and abhishek on screen.