IF you say Bollywood represents india, what about the whole population which has their own unique and even richer culture and History than the Hindi speaking sections. So according to you, Andhra,Bihar,Dehradoon,Gujarat,Himachal Pradesh,Jharkand,Karnataka,Lakswadeep,Manipur, Nagaland,Sourashtra, Tamilnadu,West Bengal does not in India? Just because Bollywood is Louder and more candy it does not mean it represents India. Actually just for comparision, i feel south indian actors like Mammotty,Kamal,Mohan Lal, CHiru, Rajni are known more in India as an Indian actor rather than Sharukh or AMitabh. As the former guys have acted in different languages compared to Bollywood heroes
RE:Anupama is the wife of Vidhu Vinod Chopra
by jagdish rao on Aug 20, 2008 12:07 PM Permalink
Now that makes sense. I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Hey guys don't make such stupid, comments like can't imagine India without bollywood. If you were a true Indian national you would not have made this. Bollywood does good, but if you can think a little bit more, are they made for Indians are NRI's living abroad. Some body mentioned dress code, do they were a dress?. Don't relate bollywood to Indian culture, if you do so, looks like you don't what Indian culture is. Only few movies depict the culture 95% don't.
Appreciate, you being a big person to make some sensible comments and not jokes. May be you can put this in Jokes column, like joke of the week, month year or what ever.
why should we think of bollywood or any X wood, They are guys who act and work hard to live for themselves. Why we are behind them. They are not God. time to think now...
RE:very sad
by Guest on Aug 20, 2008 11:58 AM Permalink
this is called real group discussion....... start with onething but end up in something different not related to actual topic of discussion.. great you guys will succeed in life.
It is utter nonsense. It does not represent anyreligion or culture. A few naked women dancing without grace is not culture. Don't talk nonsense like this please.
Almost all the HINDI movies show -only Hindu priests in bad/low light. -Vulgar dressed Hindu Female leads with Muslim male leads. -Hindi Songs and dialogues spiced up with dirty urdu/arabic words. - Pakis as good guys or pro-paki feelings, knowing very well Jihadis from pak love to bomb India, and pray for destruction of India. - Hindu females to forget sari/sindhoor culture. - Filthy extra-marital stories, and others visuals/words/stories corrupting ethics/morals and values of GREAT HINDU CIVILIZATION...may god help..
RE:Bollywood is puppetwood of Islamic mafia
by Ravi Nair on Aug 20, 2008 12:29 PM Permalink
Hinduism is ending. within 50 years it will die out in secularism, globalization, atheism, christianity, buddhism, and islam.
RE:Bollywood is puppetwood of Islamic mafia
by deepak on Aug 21, 2008 06:12 AM Permalink
Actually Islam and Christianity will be secularized and reduced to non political systems. Dogmas die out far easily than spirituality ..Hinduism will revive but dogmas of Mohammad & Jesus taking you to heaven will be gone.
RE:Yeah! We do everything through movies!
by Averil Dilip Vasnaik on Aug 20, 2008 11:37 AM Permalink
It is heartening to find realists like you in this country. The country requires people who truly live upto the expectations you propound. We just cannot host a world class international event to any satisfaction, when was the last time we hosted any such event? All we can think of is enjoyment, enjoyment, enjoyment. That is the be all and end all of life in India. Cheat, take short cuts, gossip, talk is all we resort to. There is no other cleverer people than in India, we invented the Caste System!! What a great liberating social system; and yet we managed to help bring down a system called Aparthied; we must really congratulate ourselves! Which ever religion we practice, the evil of subjugating our brothers and sisters is what we resort to so as to run our country. We are a country in which many nations try to get the better of each other, by any means. Truly, there seems to be no way to turn our country around.
What else could one expect from an author who makes her living by writing on Bollywood? Her husband Vidhu Vinod Chopra produces movies. She writes about actors & films. Its not surprising if she can't imagine an India without Bollywood. Ask Barkha Dutt or Vikram Chandra or Rajdeep Sardesai or Arnab Ghosh or Shekhar Gupta, they would tell what is India.
RE:RE:What Else Could You Expect?
by Hope on Aug 20, 2008 11:48 AM Permalink
I dont think even these reporters can say wht India is... they will write everything only from point of view of north indians.. as they themselves are north indians, they do not care a damn for wht is happening in the south.. in fact south is not even part of India for them.. it ll always be south india n India meaning norht india
RE:What Else Could You Expect?
by AAA on Aug 20, 2008 03:48 PM Permalink
Mr. Hope, Its not that serious of a matter for which u have become serious to divide our country. Think before you post. There is no north, south,east or west, there is ONE INDIA. Don't get carried away by the dirty tricks of the politicians.
RE:What Else Could You Expect?
by Hope on Aug 20, 2008 04:30 PM Permalink
I'm not dividing the country.. just go and see all the websites such as ndtv, cnn-ibn... go thru reports there.. u ll understand wht i'm saying...
RE:What Else Could You Expect?
by Akshay on Aug 20, 2008 05:38 PM Permalink
Mr Hope
You are Hopeless. People in south have some sort of fear and i think have made up their mind. They themselve assume that south is not part of india.
South is part of india. only problem is people from south cant accept any praise given to others. they always chant only 'South, South, South,...'.IF you praise south u r good. if u dont u are bad. if u abuse them u are worst. But they can abuse and say bad about others. You people are fickle minded. Still u are part of india (though u have not even produced great leaders like bhagat singh and subhash chandra bose who fought for this country and still u are shamelessly pointing others)
If that was the case, then media would have never ever highlighted rajni, chiranjeevi.
South indians are really double minded, two tongued people.Just a example to justify this
Today if amitabh is in limelight, u will find south indians crying that 'What is so great abt it. I dont understand why people are so mad abt him' but if rajnikanth is in limelight then 'Abbo, its so great yaar. People are so mad abt him. He deserves it'
South indians are 'CRYING INDIANS' of India who just know one thing better than any one else -Crying
RE:What Else Could You Expect?
by Hope on Aug 21, 2008 06:47 PM Permalink
u r such a fool... what can be done if u did not get good education... Rani Abbakka of karnataka was the first woman to revolt against foreign rule in India.. she revolted even before 1857 revolt.. probably u do not know about chennamma, sangoLLi rayanna... poor u.. i pity u.. which school did u go? better start going to school again
RE:What Else Could You Expect?
by Hope on Aug 21, 2008 12:43 PM Permalink
Mr Akshay,
Before commenting or replying, u shud have thought if u understood what was written by the previous person... other wise u ll give foolish replies like this... According to you all that that represents India is Amithab and rajni.. how ridiculous that is.
.... in South India. And seriously all those IMITATIONwoods in India just copy Hollywood films or each other. And in the south these people even become CMs
