{"id":828,"date":"2005-11-11T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/828"},"modified":"2005-11-11T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T10:58:00","slug":"south-indian-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/south-indian-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"South Indian Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amrit Hallan of the Writing Cave<\/a> wrote a post on south Indian heroes:<\/p>\n

I was just wondering why south Indian heroes look so crude and why the heroines look so seductive. While surfing the TV channels whenever I come across south Indian channels I see grandpa type uncles pathetically trying to dance with supple, grand-daughter type lasses. Most men look like Miss Havisham dressed as a man. With sticky hairdos and pyrotechnic garbs you can see them making funny poses and touching the heroines obscenely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Response:<\/span> Heroines are from Bollywood Amrit. And let’s look at the handsome hunks from Bollywood. Sharukh? Ha ha. Sunil Shetty? Sanjay Dutt? Govinda? Aamir Khan? You know what, the only big difference between south India heroes and Bollywood ones is the skin color. But hey we make better movies and music.<\/p>\n

Two questions come to mind: why, and why not? Why: May be their audience is like that, pot bellied middle-aged males who fantasize about young thin girls. Another kind of audience could be the people from the underworld because many of their heroes look like straight from the close circle of Dowd Ibrahim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Response:<\/span> You should not be generalizing about the whole of south Indian audience like that. But I can understand. <\/p>\n

Why not: Yes, why not? Why have this stereotypical image of a slim, dashing hero running around the trees with the heroin. Why can\u2019t a corpulent, middle-aged man run around the trees with a young girl? Why can\u2019t a guy looking like an auto-rickshaw driver do a sizzling number with a Page3 siren? Ok, but then what about breaking the stereotypes for the heroines too. Why cannot an amma type heroin do a tango with a guy like John Abrahim?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Response:<\/span> John Abraham is a south Indian sir.<\/p>\n

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