Wednesday, July 13, 2011

India’s two-faced urban middle-class (some, not all)


India’s two-faced urban middle-class are finding it hard to stomach ‘Delhi Belly’.

It’s a coming of age film not just for the Indian film industry, but also for the Indian urbane viewership.

After sniggering at the song’n’dance routines of Bollywood and oohing and aahing about Hollywood, many cool dudes and dudus are now not comfy with seeing a mirror held to their own lives.

I’m not talking about the protests in Kolhapur by the guntha-becha-scorpio-khareeda brigade, or PILs by the older generation.

I’m talking about contemporaries of mine, who talk exactly like the film’s script, being uncomfy with the movie.

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