Indians love kitsch. The best place to see that is cinema. We went there two days ago in Bombay.
Movie industry in Bombay, called Bollywood is a huge business . Since 1931 there were made more than 67000 films! A typical movie from Bollywood doesn’t have much of a plot, but instead actors are singing and dancing. There is always love (but no kissing!), there always have to be bad and a good character.
“Halla Bol”, the movie that we saw, shows a world of a Bollywood superstar. He is surrounded by luxurious cars and beautiful girls (often white cause white skin in India is a symbol of a better world) and he lives in a million dollar villa in Bombay. It’s significant fact that 55% of people in this city live in slams but Bollywood movies of course don’t show poverty.
When we left the cinema and I saw families going to sleep in their cardboard boxes on the street I felt like I’m in a different world. Indians are watching beautiful and colorful Bollywood images just to escape from their reality.
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