09-27-2004, 03:43 AM
I saw Hum Tum. While the movie is alright one scene caught my attention which relates to the general trend.
The Mihir Vora (Jimmy Shergill) character wedding with Diana Fernandes (Isha Koppikar). One would expect that boy being Hindu the wedding would be a Hindu one. Instead it was a christian wedding in a church. I realized after the whole wedding scene was over that there was no reason to show a church wedding because the wedding scene did not add twist or turn to the movie neither did it alter the course of the movie in any meaningful way. The whole wedding could have been replaced with a Hindu wedding without any impact on the story.
It seems these days to be modern, hip, fashionable you must:
- show westernization (wedding rings, talk in english)
- church (heroine with candle, church wedding like in Hum Tum)
- lots of skin fest
The other thing I noticed that all the leading heroines are Hindu including the ones who show lots and lots of skin. Most if not all of those "skin" heroines have justified it saying that "masses want it" and "I'm comfortable with my body" baloney. If you also notice almost all of the skin fest movies bomb at the box office. Also at the the same Paki writers keep harping on "Hindu women like to show their skin" diatribe.
In general lot of Hindu cultural imagery has been drastically reduced on screen in bollywood movies. Not too far earlier (Hum Aapke Hain Koun et al) had lots of Hindu "respect to elders", "bade bhaiyya", "pooja scenes" etc. abundantly displayed in the movie.
I don't know if the de-Hinduization in the movies is due to Dawood pressure because of the money his gang bankrools in bollywood or is it some sub culture aspect where showing all things sacred with Hindus as some kind of backward thing.
One thing is quite clear - the modern day cinema is all about following western culture, candle holding heroine in church type.
The Mihir Vora (Jimmy Shergill) character wedding with Diana Fernandes (Isha Koppikar). One would expect that boy being Hindu the wedding would be a Hindu one. Instead it was a christian wedding in a church. I realized after the whole wedding scene was over that there was no reason to show a church wedding because the wedding scene did not add twist or turn to the movie neither did it alter the course of the movie in any meaningful way. The whole wedding could have been replaced with a Hindu wedding without any impact on the story.
It seems these days to be modern, hip, fashionable you must:
- show westernization (wedding rings, talk in english)
- church (heroine with candle, church wedding like in Hum Tum)
- lots of skin fest
The other thing I noticed that all the leading heroines are Hindu including the ones who show lots and lots of skin. Most if not all of those "skin" heroines have justified it saying that "masses want it" and "I'm comfortable with my body" baloney. If you also notice almost all of the skin fest movies bomb at the box office. Also at the the same Paki writers keep harping on "Hindu women like to show their skin" diatribe.
In general lot of Hindu cultural imagery has been drastically reduced on screen in bollywood movies. Not too far earlier (Hum Aapke Hain Koun et al) had lots of Hindu "respect to elders", "bade bhaiyya", "pooja scenes" etc. abundantly displayed in the movie.
I don't know if the de-Hinduization in the movies is due to Dawood pressure because of the money his gang bankrools in bollywood or is it some sub culture aspect where showing all things sacred with Hindus as some kind of backward thing.
One thing is quite clear - the modern day cinema is all about following western culture, candle holding heroine in church type.