Everytime I watch a Bollywood movie I tell myself, NOMORE! I will have nothing more to do with all of that mindless ranting and raving about some crazy/warped love angle, a heroine desperately seeking love and an overly eager hero ready to comply! NOMORE! But then I like so many others find myself being lured again into this never ending saga of romance/drama that is Bollywood. The colors, the happy go lucky characters, the LOVE stories that in almost all cases are always a success are created to draw an audience like you and I. Try as you may with all your might to resist Bollywood, it will in some way, shape or form came back to haunt you. You say you dislike Bollywood now, ok..ever think about someone you knew from the past, an ex?, a sweety you parted ways with, an evening of fun and frolick with friends? Think about any of the aforementioned people especially when you hear a certain song? That my friends is the power of Bollywood. Love it. Hate it. Either ways it’ll never let you go. You can run but you can’t hide. Now, I'm not saying that everything Bollywood is drama filled and a waste of time. No. Not at all. There are some truly memorable movies that are made in India, the romance kind or otherwise and are a must watch. However, all logical reasoning and thoughts must be put aside before watching some of them. My only problem with these movies is the false notion of life/love that they inculcate within the minds of the very impressionable youth. They say art imitates life, not so in your average Bollywood "masala" film. Therefore, my issue in the past till date has been the effect they have on the average South Asian teenager (especially those who actually live there). Watching a typical commercial hindi flick certainly creates misleading ideas about what life and especially love is all about, for in these movies it's romancing in foreign and exotic locales and a relentless passion that never never fades away with the hero chasing the heroine and winning her heart against ALL odds (Veer Zaara, KKHH, HDDCS, QSQT, KANK, etc, etc ,etc and if you aren't able to make sense of the abbreviations you're clueless about B-Wood and don't really need to be reading this). Infact, being rather nonchalant about the opposite sex I was able to steer clear of all this Bollywood madness (watched but never let influence) even as a teen and often times found myself pondering over why even bother making movies that are so meaningless?...ofcourse at some point on a later day I will hear the melodious "tujhe dekha to yeh jaana sanam" play in the distance and figure if you can't beat em join em and so the show must go on or in this case as SRK aptly puts it "picture abhi baki hai!".
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