Y’day I went to see one hindi movie and couldn’t help but notice one certain thing. Actually the whole dejavu thing occurred and that’s why I remember the whole thing. Now you must be asking whats the “thing”. Well lately the movies coming out of Bollywod have one thing very very peculiar.. they are showing a LOT of Christianity and churches back from the days of DDLJ, this symbols, western culture and all have created one niche.. but lately almost evey hindi movie I saw has all the hindu heros goto to church with his heroines to make a wish, lit a candle, pray confess.
well we always had Christianity where a cast member would be christian and that's that.. praying to virgin mary when the hero was shackled in the loin's den or when his mom was on the deathbed, but this is different.. it's like hmmm how should i put it.. an 'advertisement' for Christianity.. lots of church shots.. lots of prayer shots.. and other symbols deliberately inserted everywhere.. I guess these churches must be really that scenic. The other trend is the 'commercial' one.. lots of western (actually American only) phrases, dresses, lingo culture embedded in the movie where it's not even needed.. and it's getting quite overt actually. I don’t know but I guess its to add the psuedo value to the central character..if this particular guys goes to mandir he is country gaon wala, in other case if he goes to chruch he is hep, totally psued. And wearing of christ cross has become a fashion statement. What the Beep, what about OM :(
Guess in the movies most hindus are polytheists, and these people just add a couple more gods/saints to their circle of worship. Mostly they attribute certain churches with certain powers (conceiving, relief from illness), and ritualize their worship with novel offerings and such.
anyone else notice it or i'm just watching Bollywood movies after a long time:P
