lunchtime poll #2: Bollywood and your emotional self
Alright, even though the last time I posed a poll question the results were few, I'm going to try again, because I'm very curious.
Here's the question*: as Bollywood watchers, do you feel that Bollywood - its conventions, devices, vocabulary, and/or the behaviors of characters - affects the way you consider, manager, and/or respond to your own emotions?
I think the easiest example of what I'm talking about is how you deal with other people - you find yourself giving into the temptation to overromanticize things, to view interpersonal relationships as either a true match or a true evil, to make things bigger and simpler than they really are, to find big meaning in actions or words that are really more nuanced and more contextualized than they are sweeping. Or, just more broadly, you think that life will work the way it does in Bollywood.
In other words - do you find yourself wearing Bollywood-colored glasses? My answer, pretty obviously, is "heck yeah!"
* Apologies to the few people I've already emailed the poll question to individually. Your responses inspired me to open up the survey!
Here's the question*: as Bollywood watchers, do you feel that Bollywood - its conventions, devices, vocabulary, and/or the behaviors of characters - affects the way you consider, manager, and/or respond to your own emotions?
I think the easiest example of what I'm talking about is how you deal with other people - you find yourself giving into the temptation to overromanticize things, to view interpersonal relationships as either a true match or a true evil, to make things bigger and simpler than they really are, to find big meaning in actions or words that are really more nuanced and more contextualized than they are sweeping. Or, just more broadly, you think that life will work the way it does in Bollywood.
In other words - do you find yourself wearing Bollywood-colored glasses? My answer, pretty obviously, is "heck yeah!"
* Apologies to the few people I've already emailed the poll question to individually. Your responses inspired me to open up the survey!
Comments
You, of course, are so affected by Bollywood that you have a job in it!
And then, there are total clichés that I indulge in totally aware that it is a cliché. For example: If someone asks me something and the answer is no. I do a fake Hindi film "Naheeeee!" This is done by touching your right wrist to your forehead and twisting the upper part of your body to the right. Of course an expression of utter and serious helplessness does also goes with the gesture.
Beth, let me think of some other examples. "Bahut naainsaafi hai"(its a grave injustice) from Sholay is another dialogue I commonly use. Another favorite- "Sab theek ho jaayega, main hoon na!(Everything will be ok, I'm there)! Whenever anyone says "It's all about...), I counter it with "It's all about loving your parents" (K3G's promotional campaign)And finally, the clincher: For the last 6-8 months, ever since I've seen Waqt-The Race Against Time, whenever anyone starts saying "Do me a favor..." I automatically go "...let's play Holi" in tune, in Anu Malik's voice!!! Need I say more?
My only problem is all but one of my friends here will have no idea what I'm doing if I start quoting more Bollywood. Although I have already adopted Lucky's "Avoid!" from Main Hoon Na.