Funny – at its most insane!
Boisterous – at its most verbose!
Pampered – at its most mollycoddled!
Rowdy – at its most gaudy!
Outrageous – at its most
audacious!
Cosmetic – at its most superficial!
Melodrama – at its most dramatic!
The hero:
- Drives auto-rickshaw, or,
- Is a bicycle riding college student, or,
- Is a street vendor of vada-pao, or,
- A goonda living in a slum.
The heroine:
- Is from heaven.
- From a family of high and mighty politicians,
or,
- A larger than life businessman, or,
- A mafia Don flying in chartered plane.
Rarely, the narrative is developed
with role-reversals.
Either the hero approaches the
heroine or the heroine has the ‘instantaneous’ love-at-first-sight, no time is
wasted in coming to the point – its direct and precise – irrespective of the ‘class’
difference – without going into details – like smooth and efficient!
Love happens so readily – only after
few sitcom scenes – and the glues is so strong - that you feel that these films
are the true representatives of a ‘classless’ society.
Either love is so ripe or
directors are so experienced in these movies that they don’t waste any moment
in nuances of going ‘in between the lines’ – or they refuse to see the beauty
there that others see!
True post-modernists! Iconoclasts
in their own league – so much so – that they have started a league of their
own, their 'own Masala' within the larger 'Masala Films' genre! Proponents and followers of Communism should take their worldview (social
take) on society seriously!
(P.S. – While randomly picking up
a Dhanush’s movie on TV!)
(P.S. – South Indian cinema
produces some of the finest movies in India every year. This is just about the
so-called mainstream gibberish that is so prevalent even in the Mumbai cinema
or the Hindi film industry – though, even there loves doesn’t happen so readily
– and is certainly not ‘class-less’!)
:)