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does anyone else feel like dancing when watching bollywood movies?

HybridSquirrel

HybridSquirrel

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We just watched on in my art history class, I don't remember the name but its about the King Asoka. The star was the most famous one in Bollywood...Something Kahn was his last name. But damn they were dancing and singing almost the whole time and I had to fight the urge to dance in my seat. Does anyone else have this?


edit: was this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249371/
 
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no. I would more accurately describe the feeling I experience while watching a bollywood movie as "nausea."
 
destrekor said:
And I'd further detail the feeling as that of "a strong desire to mutilate self, likely resulting in death."
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seriously. we have some friends, both very awesome, super nice people, that occasionally like to host "movie night" at their place.

of course, to them, "movie night" means whatever 4-hour long over-melodramatic, poorly written and childish Bollywood flick they think we need to see. All of them are incredibly popular, or so we're told.

I can't tell you how much a loathe these invitations. We're running out of excuses.

One thing though, is that seeing as how popular these movies are, it does give me hope that the overall poor taste of our culture as seen through popular Hollywood offerings is at least somewhat palatable compared to pop Indian culture.
 
zinfamous said:
One thing though, is that seeing as how popular these movies are, it does give me hope that the overall poor taste of our culture as seen through popular Hollywood offerings is at least somewhat palatable compared to pop Indian culture.
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It's sort of like lamenting the sad state of American popular music until you hear J-pop.
 
AstroManLuca said:
It's sort of like lamenting the sad state of American popular music until you hear J-pop.
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exaclty. my next thought after making that comment was that japanese pop anything is also worse than American pop culture.


...then you realize, it's all derived from American pop culture (thanks you, Michael Jackson), then poorly understood by the adopting culture and perverted into something even more tasteless.
 
zinfamous said:
exaclty. my next thought after making that comment was that japanese pop anything is also worse than American pop culture.


...then you realize, it's all derived from American pop culture (thanks you, Michael Jackson), then poorly understood by the adopting culture and perverted into something even more tasteless.
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ay, the "good copy" phenomenon.
You can copy and emulate the culture or system of somewhere else, but it will never be as good as the original. Merely, a good copy of the original, at best.
So, in these cases, they emulate what is popular in the West, but instead of trying to completely emulate it, they kind of adapt it to their own culture so that it is original for them.
Hence, all the Asian pop. Works for them, they are happy. But it's terrible... terrrrible. I don't like American pop one bit, but I'll take it any day if it meant not having to deal with the other junk. And that is even forgetting that notion I can't understand a word they are saying; it's not like American pop has anything worthy of actually paying attention to lyrics.
 
there are some good bollywood movies! i tend to like ones with fewer / no songs though
 
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vshah said:
there are some good bollywood movies! i tend to like ones with fewer / no songs though
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I would assume that you know this already...but that wouldn't be Bollywood. "Bollywood" refers to a style of film, it doesn't mean any film that comes out of India. Plenty of great stuff comes out of India. But most of it is Bollywood, and Bollywood is very....tacky.

songs + dancing + laughable dialogue + slapstick and inappropriate sound effects + completely immature and non-serious subjects treated as super serious + 30 minutes of plot dragged out to 4 hours = Bollywood.
 
What's the point of posting here about another culture?


Everyone here on AT believes western / American culture is superior anyway.
 
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HybridSquirrel said:
does anyone else feel like dancing when watching bollywood movies?
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i speak fluent hindi and was born and raised in india but i like only a handful of bollywood movies. most of them are utter garbage. also, i hate the song and dance cause they mostly have nothing to do with the movie.
 
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