Things I hate about Bollywood movies
- Women characters are an afterthought and often don’t have personalities other than being mom, wife, or a love interest. They are depicted as only being concerned about love, marriage or motherhood. Women are objectified and their depiction is often as eye candy for men - with weird clothes, sleazy dances, etc
- Women are often stereotyped as stupid or weak. If she has a skill, that is often in singing, dancing or cooking. Portrayed as if every woman should “be nice” to anyone around. Only women are responsible for all household chores and entertaining people around. There is often a “lesson” or “moral” for women to learn.
- Nerds or smart people need to undergo transformation to be sexy to get a love life. Clear difference in looks/makeup/dressing between “good” vs “bad” people. You should be able to judge them based on it, even if you were not following along
- Most movies are love or revenge stories. Physical fights, street fights, chase scenes, portraying killing/physically hurting each other is normal. Love triangles everywhere, unrequited love is fantasied, communication issues in love plenty. Stalking, love at first sight are a norm.
- Cliches everywhere, of all kinds - social, regional, racial, lingual, religion. Depicts people as extra rich or extra poor, nothing in between. No one has jobs - or not normal ones. Stupidity is expected to be funny.
I am judging? Yes, based on the years of my life I have spent in viewing them.
Recent sad realization is that is was not just a terrible waste of time but is serving as horrible social conditioning for a large portion of the population that watches this.
What is helping the viewers change out of legacy, archaic, stereotypical rules? Isn’t it a responsibility of journalism and media, including movies?