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Wednesday Wisdom: How Bollywood films messed with our lives
For every local hero and heroine...
Life is tough for Bollywood buffs. Why? Because we've grown up on the good stuff. Bollywood is all about background scores, drama, action and of course, perfect eternal friendship and romance and real life is not. And even though I absolutely love that, I also hate it.
During my growing up years, Bollywood was a huge part of my life and just like my fellow tribe of fanatics, I grew up effortlessly memorising dialogues and breaking out in to a song (and sometimes dance) at the most random times. Unlike the 'cool' kids of today, back then, there was no 'How I met your mother' or 'Game of Thrones' to keep me glued to the television. But there was Sholay, Silsila, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and DDLJ and boy, was that magical!
As the years passed, I came to realise that these movies that I grew up on were now part of me and my being. I was so saturated by these films that I began looking for these make belief situations in my real life. I was caught in the Bollywood trap.
These films have the tendency to take you a long way from what is real and needless to say, when expectations don't meet reality, there's bound to be (BIG) disappointment. It hurts when you realise there's no ''Rahul'' and you're no "Anjali". It hurts when you imagine the person you love is saying 'palat' in his mind, and when you do turn around, he's not even looking in your direction and of course, it hurts when the answer to "Kaun hai woh, jisne dobara murke mujhe nahi dekha?" is half of the planet.
But you know what? You can't blame or shame me for having such irrational thoughts. I mean, somebody should've told me that Bollywood equals lies. And that there will never be violins playing in the background, there will not be wind in my hair when I need it the most and there will definitely not be men that would fall hook line and sinker for a simple girl wearing a pretty salwar suit and shiney bangles.
So coming to the end of this saga, I'd like to say that though Bollywood has messed with my life in the most ridiculous ways, it's still a part of who I am. I'll always be that filmy girl whose first love is Shah Rukh Khan and I will always believe that the world is full of ''Veeru's'' who will barge in and save their "Basanti's" just in the nick of time. And while I admit that the chances of these happening are as good as the sun not setting today, I'd still like to hold on to my childhood, because those who don't believe in the magic will never, ever find it.
