Its 3 Boos for Bollywood this Diwali

3 blockbuster Bollywood movies released during the Diwali week and it seems none will be able to make the mark. Blue, a supposedly underwater action film with Akshay Kumar in the lead, should be a mascot for teaching how to squander money in Bollywood. Rs 100 crore spent on a brainless, scriptless, waste of money called Blue. Main aur Mrs Khanna, vindicates my stand of Kareena being a PR actor and Salman Khan having lost it( if he ever had it). All the Best, made by the director of Golmaal and Golmaal Returns (supposedly funny movies) seems to have notched higher ratings than the other two. All I can say is all the best to those who will spend their fortune to watch the movie in theatres.

Its sad to watch Bollywood still being riddled with the age old formula of making movies and not taking scripts seriously. And the so called coming of the age movies like Wake up Sid are far from reality. I was bored during the first 50 mins of the movie itself, especially after watching Konkana Sen's character Aisha, land up a job immediately after arriving in Mumbai, renting up a sea facing flat in town without having a job. Aisha keeps claiming that she is from a small town and yet has no qualms in roaming around on the streets of Mumbai in the middle of night with a stranger. Apart from our Bollywood movies, I have never seen anyone in Mumbai painting their own flats. If you believe Bollywood movies, painter bhiayyas in Mumbai would be soon running to their towns in UP , Bihar. And all this in first 50 mins of a coming of age movies which is hailed by critics. I adore the masala movies of Bollywood because atleast they abashedly claim that they are masala movies and dont pretend to be some great piece of art.

It seems Kareena's character in Main aur Mrs Khanna, lands up at Melbourne airport alone, decides to stay back, gets a job and owns a plus home too in the city. For someone who is trying to get a foothold in Melbourne for past 6-7 months, it makes me cringe. Most of the B-movies are far from reality which is ok with me as long as they are entertaining. But the movies being churned out these days, are made on lavish budgets, praised to galore during their irritating promotions and stick out as sore thumb later. When will the B-producers understand that a few song and dance, toilet humor, bikini heroine, designer costumes are seasonings added to the main dish of a script and not the other way round.