The world's all abuzz about China right now. But I think that we should take note of India too. After all, Bangalore is being heralded as the "Silicone Valley of Asia" by tech pundits - a title that high tech Tokyo doesn't have a claim to (as far as I know).
And we have the movie making machine that is Bollywood. Free of the strikes & unions that are now plagueing Hollywood, Bollywood produces more movies annually than Hollywood does. & that's considering 1 movie can stretch to 3 hours plus! But, of course, Bollywood doesn't specialise in sci-fi blockbusters. Their speciality is the classic "boy meets girl, they fall in love, parents object, but love prevails" all this is inclusive of lots of breaks to break into song and dance. Usually in a field where trees are available for a little "peakaboo" dance routine between the boy and the girl to the accompanyment of a dance chorus for the boy and the girl's side each numbering in the dozens. Gene Kelly can sing in the rain all he wants but he's gotta do it solo in Hollywood. In Bollywood, that street would be filled with male dancers to back Gene up.
When people who don't understand Tamil/Hindi try to make heads or tail of the song in relation to the story (without the aid of English subtitles), we get translations like "My loony bun is fine Benny Lava"...seriously. Which in turn makes for the latest "in" video over at YouTube Land.
And since we all love them cute Indian accents (else Russell Peters wouldn't be as popular as he is...thanks also to YouTube), ads set in India make for a good laugh. Especially when it's someone trying to make a home delivery order from an Indian restaurant in Mumbai to Singapore. "Singapore...butter chicken...parcel! Hmpf!" 8P
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