Hindi Movies

               I was watching the 'Best Songs of last Century' the other and I started thinking about how the landscape of the Hindi movies (I hate to refer Hindi movies as 'Bollywood', it seems like a cheap knock-off of Hollywood) have changed in the past couple of decades.

              With all due respect to the great actors & directors of 50's thru 80's, I feel that movies reflected the society of those times. We had movies that would have famine stricken farmer & a victim of the labor stricken, un-employed as the main protagonist. India of 1950's-70's was indeed going through a very rough phase which was rightly reflected in the movies. The economic liberalization brought a new wave of enthusiasm in Indians. They started to feel optimistic about the future. Movies that had Shimla & Mahabaleshwar as their regular backdrops, globalized as well. The 'Himalaya's' became ‘Alps’; Bombay's Nariman Point building took back seat for New York's sky-scrapers, Namibia's desert took over Thar of Rajasthan.

             The vision of Indian movies shows what the society as a whole thinks about their own future.

And there is more to come in terms of prosperity, which will be rightly reflected in the movies, as the great Indian tiger has just about awakened…

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