I've said on here a couple of times how I think real life should be more like an operetta...where people broke into song to further the plot along, or how there would be dance numbers (let's leave aside the fact that I never actually learned how to dance), and that everyone was happy in the end.
I tweeted about it one day when I was having a challenging day. Several people who followed me said "What about Bollywood, would you settle for life being more like a Bollywood movie?"
I admit, I've never seen any Bollywood. Though based on snippets from YouTube, I think I'd enjoy it. (I don't do Netflix. I've thought about it but with the way my schedule goes...I don't know that it would work so well for me. Unless I break down and buy some device that allowed streaming-on-demand (My home computer is sufficiently old and asthmatic that I fear trying to stream video to it would kill it at this point). I'm not sure if the remaining local video place has Bollywood available to rent...I should check.
But anyway. Here's a Bollywood dance number recut to the Nyancat music. (I hope the original actors and choreographers, if they have seen it, got as big of a chuckle out of it as I did. I have to admit it's pretty wonderful, and perhaps it speaks to the joyfulness of Bollywood movies that even this kind of tampering still leaves them so delightful...)
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Almost every Bollywood film I've seen - I've even bought a few - has been at least somewhat good fun, even when it doesn't break into a song every nine minutes. (Which, given the typical three-hour length, means about twenty songs.) As distribution becomes more widespread, I expect the essence of Bollywood to be diluted somewhat, but eternal verities have a way of sticking around.
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