Post by Indi Shambi on Mar 6, 2004 13:48:08 GMT
So there I am sitting in the living room. I've got Dad snoozing in the corner of his comfortable chair and Mum has just made herself comfortable next to me after rolling out, God knows how many roti's!!!!! The Kids in the house are messing around as per usual. The video tape as just rewound and almost like magic Dad wakes up-I think he knows somewhere deep down
in his sub-consciousness whilst he was asleep that the film is about to begin. It's eitherthat, or he is pretending to be asleep. You see Mum and Dad had this
argument, which started with too much "loon" being in the Dal. However for Mum this obviously meant that she should now tell Dad for the umpteenth time that she HATES his family!!! I'm just thinking that I'm sure this argument was about "loon," but anyway whatever it was I decide that I am not getting involved. So I figure that Dad was pretending to be asleep just to hear what Mum might say to me about his family. Heaven forbid anyone to say a bad word about them.
Anyway the kids are still messing around and Dad gives them the "stare," you know the one I'm talking about it's when he looks at you with eyes bulging out of the top his head- and theyalways seem to be bloodshot- and it makes you just want to cry, that's the "stare."
Anyway there is point to what I'm saying, I'm getting there slowly but surely. So just follow my lead. The play button, is pressed on the video player and after a handful of ads for cooking oil, to the latest film, the actual movie starts.
Everyone in the house is told not to utter a word or hell will break loose!! For now we are entering the world of BOLLYWOOD.As the film goes on we realise that the boy and girl love each other and that the token "bad guy" just won't let their love evolve. So it's pretty much the usual Bollywood stuff that I
have seen before. So anyway I just glance at my Dad who seems to be well into this movie and at that point Dad tells me that the boy and girl should be together. At the same time he says something in Punjabi to the bad guy...I'm sure it's a rude word!! My mouth just hits the floor. No, don't get me wrong, it's not the rude word, I have heard them all before. Actually
my friends use them all the time. I never though, me swear no that's just not me- all of a sudden I have a tongue in my cheek. I just can't believe that my Dad wants the boy and girl to be together.
Is my Dad for real!!!! If I bought I guy home, Dad would hit the roof. In fact I tell you what he'd do, First he would kill me, then the guy who has come home with me would die, then his family would be murdered, but hey why stop there anyone who knows this unfortunate guy would die too!!! You can see
why I am in shock. No way would Dad say "sure run along into the green meadows and sing to your hearts content for the love that you feel for one another." No way, Jose would that happen! But here the very same person,My father-who I do love to bit's- believes the couple in this Hindi flick should be together in the name of "Pyaar." This film has done something to my Dad. He has turned into a new man, he never thinks like this. I just don't know what is going
on. But hey, that's the magic of Bollywood, it changes you and you don't even realise it. It makes you like things that you hate, agree with things that you loathe. It's all to weird for me. My jaw is still hanging on the floor and can you blame me???
The film goes and like any Bollywood movie, after a couple or so songs the main song comes on. You have the guy- actually let's call him the hero- dressed up in his gladrags and the gir...oops sorry the heroine looks quite pretty too. Anyway there I am just watching the couple prance about to the
hidden musical instruments and my mouth drops again!!! Why you may ask? Well, Mum has said something now, along the lines of, "oh doesn't the actress look soni, her clothes are really nice." You what Mother,
you what?
!!!!!! What are you saying? If I wore that I would not live to see another day!!! I just remember the other day that I bought a pretty conservative black top and received the biggest lecture in my life. Oh no it's not because the top
was the colour black or anything superstitious like that, it's becauseit's sleeveless. Obviously, you see, me walking around with bare arms is just a crime, really what was I thinking when I bought the top (note the sarcasm). Hey, I don't take drugs, I
don't drink or smoke, but I keep myarms bare. I must be the biggest sinner alive, will I ever be forgiven? Anyway the heroine is wearing the tiniest top that I have seen and it has NO SLEEVES, it also shows her stomach and her back is all
bare and every time she spins her skirt opens up to reveal a shapely leg. But hey, I get told off for buying a sleeveless top. What has happened to my Mum, it's that Bollywood magic again, she never thinks like this otherwise. First Dad went, weird on me and now Mum. What is happening to my parents!!!!!!! This just is not funny.Now we come to the big fight scene. I'm still in shock at this point to see my parents behave in the way they are. All of a sudden my Dad starts laughing.
A man has been shot with about a million bullets and prior to that he was beaten black and blue-well as this is a Bollywood movie, you don't actually
see the bruises, but you know what I mean. So I think to myself is this the same man that told off my younger siblings for fighting over whose footie team was better than the other? Unless they didn't beat each other to a pulp, but they still got told off for it.
The film ends with a big wedding, but I
am still dazed and confused at my Parents so I don't end up paying that much attention to the final minutes of the movie. I can't believe what I heard my parents say. I must have been in another dimension or something. Bollywood magic has taken over my household and all I want to do is cry!!!
Anyway the film has ended and I sit there thinking about what I have just witnessed and Dad turns around to me and I tells me that he spoke to Gurpreet's Dad. Gurpreet is a friend of mine, who has just run away from home. Yes you heard correct she has a done a runner!!! Anyway Dad tells me that Gurpreet's Dad has washed his hands of his daughter as she has runaway with her boyfriend from home-Dad thinks that I
don't know this. Mum at this points turns and tuts and at the same time says "and I thought Gurpreet was a lovely girl" and Dad agrees. Now what I don't understand is, why are my parents that hated each other and there respective families not so long ago agreeing. But no forget that, this what I don't understand. Mum and Dad agreed with Boy and Girl in the film. Mum cried when she saw the girl upset, that her parents would not expect them. I'm sure they
agreed with them, in fact I now they agreed with, just look at what I have written and you'll know too!!!
You see that's just it Bollywood is scary, forget the mystique , it's scary that what it is. It does strange things to people. If you don't think Mum and Dad where strange then Bollywood has taken over your soul. It's all too crazy for me and they wonder why you want to move as far a way from home when you go to Uni.
Weird just weird!!!
in his sub-consciousness whilst he was asleep that the film is about to begin. It's eitherthat, or he is pretending to be asleep. You see Mum and Dad had this
argument, which started with too much "loon" being in the Dal. However for Mum this obviously meant that she should now tell Dad for the umpteenth time that she HATES his family!!! I'm just thinking that I'm sure this argument was about "loon," but anyway whatever it was I decide that I am not getting involved. So I figure that Dad was pretending to be asleep just to hear what Mum might say to me about his family. Heaven forbid anyone to say a bad word about them.
Anyway the kids are still messing around and Dad gives them the "stare," you know the one I'm talking about it's when he looks at you with eyes bulging out of the top his head- and theyalways seem to be bloodshot- and it makes you just want to cry, that's the "stare."
Anyway there is point to what I'm saying, I'm getting there slowly but surely. So just follow my lead. The play button, is pressed on the video player and after a handful of ads for cooking oil, to the latest film, the actual movie starts.
Everyone in the house is told not to utter a word or hell will break loose!! For now we are entering the world of BOLLYWOOD.As the film goes on we realise that the boy and girl love each other and that the token "bad guy" just won't let their love evolve. So it's pretty much the usual Bollywood stuff that I
have seen before. So anyway I just glance at my Dad who seems to be well into this movie and at that point Dad tells me that the boy and girl should be together. At the same time he says something in Punjabi to the bad guy...I'm sure it's a rude word!! My mouth just hits the floor. No, don't get me wrong, it's not the rude word, I have heard them all before. Actually
my friends use them all the time. I never though, me swear no that's just not me- all of a sudden I have a tongue in my cheek. I just can't believe that my Dad wants the boy and girl to be together.
Is my Dad for real!!!! If I bought I guy home, Dad would hit the roof. In fact I tell you what he'd do, First he would kill me, then the guy who has come home with me would die, then his family would be murdered, but hey why stop there anyone who knows this unfortunate guy would die too!!! You can see
why I am in shock. No way would Dad say "sure run along into the green meadows and sing to your hearts content for the love that you feel for one another." No way, Jose would that happen! But here the very same person,My father-who I do love to bit's- believes the couple in this Hindi flick should be together in the name of "Pyaar." This film has done something to my Dad. He has turned into a new man, he never thinks like this. I just don't know what is going
on. But hey, that's the magic of Bollywood, it changes you and you don't even realise it. It makes you like things that you hate, agree with things that you loathe. It's all to weird for me. My jaw is still hanging on the floor and can you blame me???
The film goes and like any Bollywood movie, after a couple or so songs the main song comes on. You have the guy- actually let's call him the hero- dressed up in his gladrags and the gir...oops sorry the heroine looks quite pretty too. Anyway there I am just watching the couple prance about to the
hidden musical instruments and my mouth drops again!!! Why you may ask? Well, Mum has said something now, along the lines of, "oh doesn't the actress look soni, her clothes are really nice." You what Mother,
you what?
!!!!!! What are you saying? If I wore that I would not live to see another day!!! I just remember the other day that I bought a pretty conservative black top and received the biggest lecture in my life. Oh no it's not because the top was the colour black or anything superstitious like that, it's becauseit's sleeveless. Obviously, you see, me walking around with bare arms is just a crime, really what was I thinking when I bought the top (note the sarcasm). Hey, I don't take drugs, I
don't drink or smoke, but I keep myarms bare. I must be the biggest sinner alive, will I ever be forgiven?
Anyway the heroine is wearing the tiniest top that I have seen and it has NO SLEEVES, it also shows her stomach and her back is all bare and every time she spins her skirt opens up to reveal a shapely leg. But hey, I get told off for buying a sleeveless top. What has happened to my Mum, it's that Bollywood magic again, she never thinks like this otherwise. First Dad went, weird on me and now Mum. What is happening to my parents!!!!!!! This just is not funny.Now we come to the big fight scene. I'm still in shock at this point to see my parents behave in the way they are. All of a sudden my Dad starts laughing.
A man has been shot with about a million bullets and prior to that he was beaten black and blue-well as this is a Bollywood movie, you don't actually
see the bruises, but you know what I mean. So I think to myself is this the same man that told off my younger siblings for fighting over whose footie team was better than the other?
Unless they didn't beat each other to a pulp, but they still got told off for it. The film ends with a big wedding, but I
am still dazed and confused at my Parents so I don't end up paying that much attention to the final minutes of the movie. I can't believe what I heard my parents say. I must have been in another dimension or something. Bollywood magic has taken over my household and all I want to do is cry!!!
Anyway the film has ended and I sit there thinking about what I have just witnessed and Dad turns around to me and I tells me that he spoke to Gurpreet's Dad. Gurpreet is a friend of mine, who has just run away from home. Yes you heard correct she has a done a runner!!! Anyway Dad tells me that Gurpreet's Dad has washed his hands of his daughter as she has runaway with her boyfriend from home-Dad thinks that I
don't know this. Mum at this points turns and tuts and at the same time says "and I thought Gurpreet was a lovely girl" and Dad agrees. Now what I don't understand is, why are my parents that hated each other and there respective families not so long ago agreeing. But no forget that, this what I don't understand. Mum and Dad agreed with Boy and Girl in the film. Mum cried when she saw the girl upset, that her parents would not expect them. I'm sure they
agreed with them, in fact I now they agreed with, just look at what I have written and you'll know too!!!
You see that's just it Bollywood is scary, forget the mystique , it's scary that what it is. It does strange things to people. If you don't think Mum and Dad where strange then Bollywood has taken over your soul. It's all too crazy for me and they wonder why you want to move as far a way from home when you go to Uni.
Weird just weird!!!