Bollywood these days is merely surviving on South Indian movies. The dance masters, the stunt masters, few actresses and of course stories. Soon we are even gonna see a top Tollywood(T) hero bounce into Bollywood(B). By the way, like all others this is not for the survival of B-Town, but to disseminate the ambit of our hero. The T industry is very intelligent when compared to B because it has people quick enough to grasp the depth of USP s of Kollywood movies. The B people found it a little later. May its just another safety precaution they took up or may be waiting for an auspicious moment that sets its fate right or may be the producers are still recovering from their previous 'Blows', oops I meant 'Hits'.
The chocolate boys still exist in B and it is making all the efforts change that image to the choco lava image.(Choco lava in my opinion is more matured and tastier than chocolate). And they are trying to achieve this we-call-it-life-time-achievement by making Grade-C and below(if any such grade exists) movies, songs, dialogs and dance steps.
Heroes from ages + Heroins in Mini-shorts + Transparent sarees + Spoof/Sequel of previous movies + Witless comedy = B-Town movie
The sarees are getting lower and lower and the skirts are shrinking higher and higher, couples are still dangling their feet in water sitting on an wooden bridge, forgot to mention the foreign locations.
A few good Samaritans have swerved from this path to portray Indian politics and its tactics. Great are those directors who tried to put the melodrama-higher-than-Indian-cinema(I mean politics) in just 4-hrs. But the hare-brained audience love only love stories. A few others also deviated from the usual love stories. Even I don't know what good they did by deviating. Love stories show the good things that happen in life and these new trend setters have shown the side effects of love. What all they targeted is women. And the one statement they use to cover the deviation is "It s a modern women s character." They never consulted any woman on this matter. What they did is just follow their conscience.
No one needs to explain the embarrassing situations faced by the actors during award ceremonies. They make fun of their own clan.
And coming to our T industry, the veterans still pamper their kids. A few tricks our technicians follow to cover the facial defects of heroes are super cool. The hero wears pair of sun glasses which almost covers the the top half and dons a beard which hides the bottom half. The defects are now called Style Sutras.
Bright-colors + Foreign-locations + Full-hype + New-artists + Old-stories + Remix of an old song = T movie.
T industry still runs on its hot favorite cliche dialog "Pellam ni control lo pettukovadam radu neku." I still find this dialog in movies. In T-town the hero is backed up by his mother and sister, while his father bites his head off. Or else both the parents defend their first-hero-then-their-son, in whatever pathetic situation he might be in. Its always the heroine who asks the hero about his crush and our hero simply replies "You will know when the time comes." It is a moment of pestering for our souls and a 10-min song + blushing for the protagonists. And the lyrics makes you wonder whether its an English or a Hindi song. No where to find a purely pious Telugu song. The songs gives us a feel that everyone in this world is obsessed with the hero and his own rules through an introduction song which as mandatory as filament in a bulb. A movie must contain an item number which is as important as a electrical contact to the socket which out which the bulb never glows at all.
There is one common entity to both B and T. I am not sure whether to call the entity a human or anti-human. Actually I am sure of decide I cant use a single adjective or even a plethora of epithets to describe him. He says "Ignore me, I don't care". Neither do we. But whats lingering in my mind is we can ignore only homo-sapiens. I think while doping this creature with senses God forgot to click the common-sense check-box or may be misspelt it as nuisance.He s a movie maverick. The visage is of a director, but the character is of a destructor.
Indian actors still feel applying grease all over the body, binding themselves in huge chains, rolling on carpets as methods to seduce the opposite gender.And they are on high boom with their side businesses . No, I am not talking about endorsing brands. No, no, not even IPL. Its their singing skills. There s always a 50-50 reaction to this. But personally I neither love nor hate, neither like or disgust those songs. But I surely can say I would listen to a song many more times if sung by an actual singer. There is no deficiency for film names in both the film industries coz the now songs will become future movie titles. So, as long as songs exists so does the movies (irrespective of whether stories exist or not).
