Almost a year ago a girl from this part of the world asked me, why are Indian men so romantic? (Supposedly the girl has an Indian romantic Indian boy friend now) If it was to impress her I would have come up with culture, suppression and celebration of love but instead I told her what I really feel makes us real like reel. Indian Movies, Yes, This was my answer. The influence that it has on our daily life and emotional attachment toward ever single aspect of a life in India is immense. Though such a small country, India produces by far the maximum number of movies a year not in just one language but 17 different languages. The question is, movies are supposed to be an enactment of culture but as the medium grew now the real life is an enactment of movies. This is the case with any country and their film industry then why do I think that Indian movies have such a strong hold on emotions. The reasons I think are the song and dances. There are at the least 6 songs in a movie which a common mans hums every single day of his life (not many private albums are famous in India). So every single movie is an album in itself. All the songs are poetic or at least plagiarized or adulterated version of poetry (this is not an insult) (Absolutely amazing stuff nothing to take away from the wonderful job they do. They are though entertainers and hats off to them.) Coming back to my point, I strongly feel that it is movies to anything than culture and celebration stuff that makes Indian men or women romantic. (and yes the French our contenders, well  a women will pick a French guy to an Indian for so many reasons that I cant list here which will be another entry some other time.

I was watching Salman Rushdie’s Interview on you tube. He was posed a similar question and he said coming from a movie city like Mumbai it had a greater impact on the way he writes and he got his education more from the movies than from in the library and he goes on about how his writing style is more visual because of movie influence which few writers don’t like than how writers want the writing to be not so visual.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4104835048296643361

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