Bollywood Politics

Being a supposedly "good in statistics" person i wanted to stretch its boundaries by drawing some of my understanding of Hindi movies and its gradual progression with Indian politics. My experience and research got me involved in some serious facts as i made my journey from the pre Independence days to the current times.

First talkies was released in 1931. Interestingly it was the same year our leaders took a cue from it and became vociferous for their claim to freedom. Wish they had released "alam ara' earlier.

As we moved towards 1947, India got its freedom. So did our stars from playback singing. Till then the poor guys were giving their own vocals. At last, they don't have to sing it themselves. What a freedom for the audience.

1950's. We had color movies, Which also saw emergence of other political parties in India like Jan Sangh adding more variety/ colors to the political picture of India giving more vibrancy to our democratic system where in a viewer ( read voter) can recognize a red from a black.

1960's, fresh out of our defeat from our neighbour spelled a doom for people with small eyes which became a noticeable trait in almost all the villains.

Mid 65's we basked under our glorious victory from our other neighbours and fought the food shortage with Manoj Kumar dose of patriotic movies and

emergence of hero named rajesh who fainted the entire ladies population with his slight tilt of his head.

70-75. it was the practice ground for our messiah to make his field with no major things happening politically. He gave 13 flops in row in competition to the flawed policies of our Government. 1975 it was emergency. That year 3 movie character made news - Vijay ( the underworld Don of dewar), Gabar Singh and Santoshi Maa. Deadly combo. May be people faith in god increased and people wanted to be anti social /anti heroes. Till 1980's it was the same angry young man acting as anti hero.

When our angry young man took a hiatus for short span, it was terrible time for the ladies playing sister roles to our superheroes like Mithun and Dharmendra. Poor, they had to suffer all the attrocities of villains and formed the "revenge points" for our middle class heroes. It was the worst phase of Hindi movie, same can also said be of the indian political system.

with 1990's liberalisation, came a fresh air of life. we had more people working in front of computers with easy money , credit card calls and all world class facilities. That laid the foundation of a hero who can travel places and was geeky. Cried with girls and was mean and lean. We rechristerned ourselves as "Bollywood".

2000 on wards it was "me too" attitude with our rising forex reserves. We now compete with hollywood as India is progressing towards becoming the next super power. More of Krish, Drona, Dhoom with all special effects and big budget movies.

Lets see whats in store for future.

Dog Race and Venetian

Recently, Priyanka had visited Macao. She had captured couple of cool stuff which i thought should be shared. One was the Dog Race, which is one of its kind in World and Other is the interiors of the Venetian Macao (is the largest single structure hotel building in Asia and the fourth-largest building in the world by area).

Cool Gadgets

Now added some new gadgets to my blogs. Now you all the more reason to visit this site frequently. Some of the new features are :
1.) Bollywood/ hollywood stars born today.
2.) Daily Horoscopes
3.) English language trivia
4.) My twitter updates

This will also ensure that the site has something unique updates to offer when someone visits this site. At least the top three points in case i also lag in updating the twits.

Anything else if needed can be added. Please give in your comments.

Wanted is a must watch

Salman is back and that too is a big way, A true star he is, makes a awesome comeback to the Silver screen after delivering few duds. Its a movie which stands stron on only one platform,i.e., Salman. The story and direction are decent but needless to say they are over powered by the star power of the hero. The screen presence is enigmatic ( see the last 45 min of the movie).
A star is one who makes all the ridiculous scene believable. It was earlier done in 70's, 80's with Amitabh, Dharmendra , Mithun da/ But somehow with the onset of liberalization, the movie got somehow more softer and honey coated where the hero cried and was weak (may be to sympathize with the generation which spent most of the time working in front of the computers and had a very physical nature of work). The absence these movies definitely created a niche demand which made "Ghajini" a huge hit last year. One key thing in these type of hardcore action movies is that if the hero doesnt have that screen presence, the movie stands a risk of biting the dust.
Wanted has brilliantly showcased the 'star power" of Salman. The movie has all the key elements of 80's potboilers - romance, songs, foreign locales, bad villain played brilliantly national award winner Prakash Raj,tinge of patriotism and garnished by little suspense.Its a story of a gangster and an under cover cop. Salman excels in all the scenes with able support from Ayesha, Vinod Khanna , Mahesh Manjrekar, Sarfarz Khan, Inder Kumar and other actors. The first half may be a drag but have your patience because the climax just lifts up the adrenalin levels. WELCOME BACK SAL MAN.

Dreamy Music

There comes a time when you really appreciate good music. I am doing that for the music of " London Dreams". Its Indie rock with Indian Soul full of Raagas. Each track has the capability of becoming a chart buster. None of the songs gets " i heard it earlier" reaction from me. The Lyrics are penned by Prasoon Joshi and he has done admirable job. My pick of the chart is the "Barsoon Yaaron" where Vishal and Roop Kumar Rathod have given the vocals with excellent guitar work. Hats off to the trio - Shankar Ehsaan Loy.

A small Obituary

In 2004, he had walked his way to Victory in AP assembly election when it was certain that his opponent was invincible. I thought his success would be short lived against his formidable opponent who would easily overshadow him as a massive leader. He surprised again by retaining the chief ministership and that he did it with elan with two AP Goliath leader biting the dust this time. One of them was a superstar and worshipped hero who had made his maiden foray in politics with full support. Not only the hero was marginalised, this AP chanakya made it a strategy to combat the other Goliath by making the contest a three pronged one resulting in marginalising his votes.

No wonder he was one of the "tallest" leader who stood his ground when the earth around him shook with the Satyam/ matyas scandal. He may be vociferous leader with allegation of corruption eating away his reputation but he ll always be revered in the heart of the poor people and general public.

And India had never seen such an unprecedented search operations - Sukhoi, Satellites, ISRO, CRPF, ANti Naxal Grey Hounds etc when his helicopter went missing.

India has lost a good leader. And i am honored that i lived in this time.