Thursday, October 01, 2009

Dedicated to some folks I know


"But what gave the idea to these young people that Indian stars sang while running around coconut trees? Old Bollywood and Kollywood movies?

For Bollywood and Kollywood, stars do not run around trees while they sing in the new movies. Movies like Unnaipol Oruvan, a Kamal Hassan-Mohanlal starrer, does not even have songs, and are so professionally produced that it looks like a Hollywood movie. Was the idea that Indian stars sang while running around trees communicated to these young ones by their elders and they bought the stereotype wholesale without even bothering to get their facts straight?"

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