Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Movies

I remember having this conversation in college long time back and let me just present the main part of it here
Rem the movies of the late 70s and 80s???this was the time when movies like zanjeer were released...the movie created "the angry young man" character...this was also the time when the youth of India were undergoing various frustrations like unemployment, economic setback and of course the emergency.
So, when "vijay" was introduced to the youth through the movies, the people were able to adapt to it coz this was what they wanted...a guy who would speak up for the society and finally the good wins over the evil
The early 90s and the turn of the millenium saw a change as characters like raj, rohit and rahul were introduced...while raj and rohit mainly had the image of young guys becoming successful in India and abroad through hard-work the "rahul" characters were the people who were ABCDs...this was the youth who were either in US or UK, had more than what they wanted and just had to make things work for them
Iguess Yash Chopra, Karan Johar and many other directors have been able to embed the feelings of the society into the movies

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