Bollywood sucks for embarrasing us Indians in front of the world.

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As much as i feel it rather banal to support someone as if i were owing allegiance or something, i agree with you as wholeheartedly as i can allow myself. As a pakistani-american - in which i would fall practically under the same categories as indians at least in comparison to european-descendents - i feel shame and embarressment at the mockery indian films make in their imitation of Hollywood - nay, western altogether - ideas. Where indian culture is rich and civilized, bollywood films are capricious and superficial - a parody of the gravity of their own culture through all its years of continuity that have allowed it to become so profound and great. Bollywood movies are capricious and superficial in a lighthearted way - sure - but also in a stupid way, in a way such that if you've seen as many Indian films as i have, they become predictable, banal, and ultimately as incapable of inducing mind stimulation as a sterile man inducing pregnancy. Foreign observors with good taste (and lets perhaps allow some exceptions which some members of this bollywood-supporting board would, no doubt, claim themselves to be)- westerners especially - should feel uncomfortable and a bit alienated at such nonsensical almost self-parodying renditions that these films are. This alienation extends just as well to good Indians such as yourself (if you allow me to assume you are in this category, anyways), for whom being amongst the bane adds greater embarrassment, and whom I almost pity and at the least agree with. Perhaps the cheery attitude and cliche storylines in Bollywood film are just a nonchalant, purposefully mild approach to quench the Indian thirst of wanting to bring back or redeem - or at least maintain - parts of their culture that have been forgotten or erased - perhaps its all just a nostalgic romanticism in the midst of the advancement into modernity and the slow eradication of traditional values. Nonetheless, despite the unique art that it may be and for whatever purpose, this montage of scraped together and misplaced and poorly imitated ideas is as high and magnificent form of mediocricy as ive ever seen - its senseless, decadent, rabble-rousing, good-for-nothing, stupidity-generating, wholesome SCUM. And now ill take my leave - i've got to go see an Indian movie =). J/K. RANT END.