Hollywood Bollywood

What's the difference between a Bollywood movie and a Hollywood movie ? While Hollywood movies range in subject from schizophrenia to whacky space oddesies, a Bollywood movie is always centered around a love story between two good looking people of the opposite sex (Girlfriend doesn't count ok). It now makes perfect sense to me. A movie is intended to provide entertainment by taking the viewer into the realm of the fantastical. Love stories are fantastical to Indian audiences! Since the days of Madhubala and Mumtaz, we've been watching two people fall in love with one another, movie after movie, because we are a race of people who belive in arranged marriages (read as "tying the bullock to the cart". Really, the garlanding and the going-round-in-circles with ends of clothing tied in a knot are symbolic of this) . My guess is that when a white man watches a dubbed or subtitled version of a Bollywood movie, he only appreciates it for the fact that it is ALWAYS a musical with choreographed pelvis shaking dance sequences! All the coochie-cooing and (fake) kissing are nothing new to him... he's already done those things in real life. But young people all over our huge country get turned on by the slightest nuance of lust and educate themselves of what they'd like to do with their partner, if they had one.

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