I have seen ( no this is not about Halloween) many
many Bollywood films ( and of course Hollywood and Pakistani films too) and have been watching for over 80 years. I have written some trends before like weddings and themes changing with time etc.
Before getting to the subject let me record here some thing else: The first song playback recorded 1935 movie--dhoop chaown --men khush hona chahun khush ho na sakun-snger was KLSaigal and lips of Ahi Sanyal. now back to Trends
This is something my son, born and raised in the USA, one day pointed out that as soon as boy and girl fall in love in Indian films they start running in some garden.
Yes, it is absolutely true and now I notice it more so much so that I do not remember any movie in which it does not happen and I don't know why they must run either towards each other or together in any direction and then usually start singing and dancing or something like that but it does happen
I have an additional observations: they both stand open in the pouring down rain and if one of them has an umbrella he/she will throw away, this, partly is meant by the director to show the bodily curves etc. and yes focus on the female breasts covered by clothes. This particular aspect was brought out so prominently in one movie (RajKapoor directing and producing) where a beautiful Kashmiri girl is seen in similar rain and yes focus on her breasts while she is wearing very very thin white cloth (malmal) shirt (no bra) giving the viewers the full advantage of the beauty almost naked (actually better than naked) and there was some mild uproar in the media for a short period (RajKapur can do it)
The trend for rain as well as running in the gardens is sometimes mixed and it continues to the present day
One more frequent observation is that hero and heroine while singing together jump over from garden or green places to a high rock near a mountain or seashore, a place where you may get vertigo or tend to fall (I have no idea what its significance is but it is very common)
What I have said about Bollywood is also true of Pakistani films. I wonder how they climb up to such a place or probably dropped through helicopter for filming such precarious scenes
1 comment:
My understanding is this running etc is physical expression of joy of the love But i fail to understand their standing and singing on a rock or mount kind of unapproachable for ordinary walking individuals and i feel sure the actors are picked up with some mechanical device like a helicoptor for the song or expression of love
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