As an aside, I read something that caught my eye recently and had me in splits. Disclosure: I have no political affiliations nor do I intend to cause hurt to anyone!! ? My only point would be that there are everyday things that can cause unintentional humor.
[A group of sacked Jet employees met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray here. An MNS delegation will meet the management on Thursday, said Gajanan Rane, vice-president of the MNS labour wing.
Ms Ramya, understand the difference between SLAPSTICK and poor-writing-masquerading-as-parody. One can laugh for good slapstick but one who finds the latter amusing is, in my words, humour-challenged. Yeah, he/she would be a happy person but humour goes beyond grinning your teeth, you know. Creating good slapstick requires intelligence you know. Heck, PG Wodehouse is wholly verbal slapstick. But why am I even bothering? You will come back with an inane comment.
And as regards BR, my question to him is specific: He wants intelligent writing from Sunil Darshan and Satish Kaushik. Yet Farah Khan, who apparently is leagues above those 2 both in his estimation and overall standing in the Indian film world, can get away with such poor writing? He wont mention a word of it in his review?
I remember arguing in the Singh is King review that if we are offended enough by that crap, why not get offended by OSO crap? Because BR was highly injured by SiK. You could read through that he had suffered in agony through that movie. Why is OSO better than SiK? What sort of snobbery is this?
The issue is that Bollywood writes South Indians using other Bollywood movies as a reference, so they are limited in their exposure. In general the average person does not discriminate consciously. The nature of the superiority complex is a little more insidious and of a collective nature.
Zero: Am I right in assuming you agree with the piece ? Also are you saying that the lead actors in south Indian cinema ARE sub-par (with the obvious exceptions) because of the quotes around insinuation?
The piece is a good deconstruction but very unilateral. It looks at the Tamil audience independent of the Bollywood audience. Just by nature of the movies being made in Hindi large parts of the country automatically have no linguistic connections to the movie. And that is a pretty big connection.
But the tamil audience is not the sole proprietor of excess adulation. Were there not similar demonstrations of solidarity to the Bachchan family when he was injured on the sets of Coolie?