For the past few months, satellite channels are agog with these movies. Try switching channels, and you will be lucky to find a Hindi film running on a Hindi GEC. I wonder what the TRPs for such movies would be! Who would bother to watch these movies with hilarious titles; including the South Indian audiences settled elsewhere in India? Sample these names:
Indra – The Tiger, Mera Boss Bajrangbali, Meri Jung – One Man Army, Don No. 1, Loha – The Iron Man!
I have nothing against these movies. They may be really entertaining, in an intentional way. But what’s the point in telecasting them on prime time on a Hindi GEC? Die-hard South Indian movie fans will prefer watching the films in their original language any day.
At the end of a hard day at work, I will prefer watching Amol Palekar’s Golmaal for the nth time than a pudgy, pot-bellied hero mouthing dialogues in terrible lip sync.
Like the Oscar-wallahs don’t understand song and dance routines in Bollywood movies, we too don’t understand the sensibilities of a movie culture where the hero can create a cyclone by the sheer force of his fart. To each his own! All’s fine until it’s showed to the relevant target audience.
So, could the Star TVs and Sonys of the world please have mercy on us, and run some quality movies, at least on prime time? I don’t pay you for the content I can easily watch on Sun TV.
we too don’t understand the sensibilities of a movie culture where the hero can create a cyclone by the sheer force of his fart.
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