Why Blame Bollywood?

2005 has been a wonderful year for Bollywood thus far vis-a-vis 2003 and 2004, when the industry suffered a big loss. Hindi movies were always criticized the way they were taken - dancing around the trees, one cabaret number, some fights, and a happy ending. Stories ranged from triangle love stories, brothers separated and uniting, villain killing the hero's father when he was a child and later taking revenge, rich man in love with a poor girl and vice versa, and some unusually patriotic heroes. Although, such films are still made, Bollywood has come a long way, but still hasn't been able to come out of this image totally. Now, what made me write this article is that this year I have seen some really good movies churned up. Parineeta, Iqbal, Sarkar, Black, Viruddh just to name a few. But I was surprised to see that Bunti aur Bubli is the greatest hit of this year thus far. I have seen the movie and felt it to be utterly nonsense. So, now I wonder whether Bollywood has to be blamed for the quality of films it make? Obviously, films are made keeping in mind the public demand, and of course, they need to make some money too. But if this is the public response to good films, God only knows if there will be any motivation to make films of the genre that I mentioned earlier. First, let's change, then ask for more. Agreed, we go out for a movie for so-called entertainment, but let's give the due share to the good ones too, which are entertaining too!